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Upshern (2)/Kosher pizza parlor (1)
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Upshern (2)/kosher Pizza Parlor (1). Daum, Menachem. 1905. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194847.APA citation style
(1905). Upshern (2)/Kosher pizza parlor (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194847.Chicago citation style
Upshern (2)/kosher Pizza Parlor (1). Daum, Menachem. 1905. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194847.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Upshern ceremony (ritual marking a boy's first haircut) for a son of the Naiman family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 2) 8/13/1994 Kosher pizza parlor (Part 1) 5/13/1994 Terms you may encounter: Benbayis: Unofficial member of a household, family. G'makh: Free loan fund. Haymish: Literally, “homey,” colloquially: Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox. Shiddukh: Match, betrothal. Yuntef: Holiday. 00:00:00 - (No audio) Ger Yeshiva Yagdil Torah: schoolbus, exterior of building. Neiman boy who had his upshern arrives with family for his ceremonial introduction to schooling. 00:01:02 - (No audio) Gold family (?): Father and sons leaving house. Candles in a window. 00:03:21 - (No audio until 8:40) Neiman boy enters Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz's classroom. First lesson in reading alef-bais (alphabet): candies placed on the letters as his brother and family look on. Afterwards distributes candy and cake to all the boys. (Yiddish) 00:14:33 - The boy puts a coin for charity into a robotic piggy bank (pushke) and he and his family leave. 00:16:46 - Interview with Mendel, Hasidic owner of kosher pizza parlor. The free loan society and loans from relatives and his rebbe helped him establish the business. About losing his father as a child and being brought up by the Tosher Rebbe, who also arranged his marriage. Customers at tables. Ads for Mrs. Weiser's Blintzes and Haderech taxi company. Other signs.
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