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Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-05-08 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Interview with Moishe and Chips Gold, Belzer Hasidim, and other family members. (Part 5) 5/8/1994 Terms you may encounter: Shtrayml: Fur hat worn by Hasidic men on the Sabbath and holidays. 00:00:05 - Interview with Golds. Another son talks about how he was matched with his wife and how they received the Belzer Rebbe's blessing for the match. What one looks for in a match: a respected and known and prosperous family, involved in the community. Whether one feels some sort of rapport with the prospective mate. 00:04:59 - Chips Gold about how it's important to have a spotless house when making a match for daughters. 00:05:43 - Oldest Gold son: First time his father took him to Shabbos with Belzer Rebbe and Belz Hasidim was a spiritual experience for him and he knew he wanted to be a Hasid. It entailed negotiation with his wife. The Rebbe cautioned him to go slowly and was worried he would alienate non-Hasidic siblings. 00:10:15 - Another son about being attracted to the fervor of Hasidic prayer. (Fragment) 00:11:15 - One important element of Hasidism is the doing of more than is required. Another is the imbuing of daily life with joy. 00:13:01 - Chips Gold: About how the Rebbe and his wife are like family. That Hasidism is about a feeling of belonging. Her brother-in-law: Hasidism is about cohesion, everyone going to the same besmedresh (house of prayer), praying in the same way. The grandchildren are asked questions by the filmmaker but are too shy to say much. 00:16:34 - Chips Gold: She comes from a family with Satmar Hasidic background but it was an adjustment for her when her husband started becoming more Hasidic. 00:18:45 - More about the role of joy in Hasidic life and how Hasidim believe that everything that happens is meant to happen. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Munkacs Hasidim Celebrating Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 2/25/1994 00:10:32 - (Partial audio) Shot from women's balcony: Munkacs Rebbe dancing in the Munkacs synagogue in a circle of men, some in costume. He dances with some. Boys and men watching. Girls and women watch from balcony. 00:16:39 - Shots of crowd. Young boy on Munkacs Rebbe's lap. A cup of wine is poured from a wine fountain. Other children and men clamber onto the giant tish (table). The rest of this sequence is filmed from the women's balcony without audio. Cups of wine blessed by the Rebbe are handed out. A crowd of men surround the Rebbe and help him put on his fur coat. Some kiss his hand. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 2/25/1993 00:00:27 - (No audio) Morning street scenes in Williamsburg: Hasidic men, women, children. Some children dressed in costume for Purim, including two dressed as white-bearded rebbes. 00:07:04 - Man going to or coming from morning prayer. Other men entering the entrance of what may be a shtibl, a small Hasidic house of prayer. More street scenes. Stores on Lee Avenue. 00:10:33 - Elevated subway train near Williamsburg Bridge and Peter Luger Steak House. Roebling Street. 00:12:50 - Children dressed as cows and bunnies. Store sign: "We specialize in Succah awnings." More street scenes. People unloading luggage from a bus. Police officer. Overpass over Brooklyn Queens expressway. Keap Street. 00:19:28 - Tall man in a costume. Child dressed as Fidel Castro. Child waving American flag. Three girls in identical coats. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Chanting of megillah (Scroll of Esther) on Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) a in Ger shtibl (small Hasidic house of prayer) (Part 2) 2/24/1994 00:00:02 - Men and boys, some in costume, listen to the reading of the megillah in the Ger shtibl. When Haman's name is mentioned, boys shake noisemakers or throw down firecracker poppers to drown out his name. 00:13:58 - (No audio) Little girls in costume and women listening to the reading of the megillah in a hallway. 00:14:50 - Continuation of the reading of the megillah. Women and girls listen from behind the mechitsa (divider that marks off a women's section in a synagogue). 00:22:21 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Children in costume for Purim, delivering shalekhmones. Celebration of Purim in the home of the Lubart family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 2) 2/25/1994 Terms you may encounter: Purim: Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. . Sholekhmones: Food baskets given as gifts on Purim. 00:00:11 - (Partial audio) Children in costume for Purim in Borough Park. Menachem Daum in conversation with Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz (?) Lubart children and other children delivering sholekhmones. Arrive at home of grandparents. Sign on door: Soyfer (Scribe) - Tefillin, Mezuzahs, Megilot. Rabbi M. Lubart. 00:09:21 - Short interview (in English) with girl dressed as strawberry. Menachem with a boy collecting for charity, in conversation with a woman, possibly a neighbor. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Celebration of Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) with the Bobover Rebbe and his followers. (Part 2) 2/25/1994 00:00:00 - (Audio begins at 4:19) Purim in the Bobover Synagogue: crowds of men and boys, the Bobover Rebbe eating, man playing trombone-like instrument, men and boys singing. A call and response: The Rebbe chanting and the crowd responding with a nigun (traditional melody). 00:14:02 - Performers waiting in the wings. Crowds. Police. Behind the bleachers. Women in the women's balcony. Men and boys with their arms around each other. Boys and men perched on top of bookshelves. 00:20:09 - Performers: singer. Audience, including two police officers. 00:22:19 - Audio only. Wild sound. Rebbe speaking, men singing nigun. [Tape runs out of space for remaining wild sound] View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1905-06-15 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Street scenes and signs during Passover, 1993. 00:00:01 - (No audio) Signs and street scenes: A store that will be closed on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). A lamppost advertising a "Pesach Spectacle." Two small boys walking with their father. A woman selling flowers. Hasidic men. A young woman wearing a shaytl (wig). . 00:01:28 - (No audio) Passersby: Woman wearing sheitl and hat. Sign: Yochsin Institute: Research in Jewish Roots. Kosher Dairy Luncheonette. Moshe's Fruit Paradise. Posted times for morning and afternoon prayers. A kosher store under the supervision of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy. 00:05:08 - (No audio) Signs: Goldberg Pesach Grocery. Rally in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 92nd birthday. Ad for soda company. A lecture for women on preparation for Passover by Rav Label Katz. Ad for kosher for Passover toiletries. A play at Brooklyn Academy of Music: Blik un tsurik. 00:10:19 - Kosher soap in a window display. Menachem Daum and his sons shopping in a Passover store. One of the sons reads out the shopping list and explains what makes something kosher for Passover. Other shoppers, shelves with products.Sign advertising Afikomen special on tapes and books. 00:10:28 - (No audio) Outside Goldberg's Pesach Grocery: passersby, girl with full shopping cart, people leaving store with shopping bags. 00:14:45 - (No audio) Signs: Pesach spectacle: Torah Tots. Das Torah of our Gedolei Yisroel: Proper Dress in Accordance with Halacha [Jewish law]: poster urging women to dress modestly. 00:18:06 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 00:00:04 - (No audio) Street scenes in Willamsburg on Purim (Hooper Street): Children in costume, men in shtraymls, familiies, women. People carrying sholekhmones (holiday gift baskets. 00:11:19 - More street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim. Twin towers (World Trade Center) visible from over the river in Manhattan. A street near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 00:13:45 - Housewares store with Purim costumes for sale in window. More Purim street scenes. 00:17:00 - Crowds watch Neturei Karta (an anti-Israel Hasidic group) burning an Israeli flag. 00:19:48 - Lee Avenue, Williamsburg: Purim street scene in front of Tiferes Heymishe Bakery. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Williamsburg and Borough Park street scenes. Men studying Talmud. Inside the Satmar-owned B&H Photo in Manhattan. 0:00:24 - Satmar butcher shop in Williamsburg. Other stores and Hasidic shopkeepers. Signs, including Yiddish sign advertising carpet cleaning. Street sign: Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum Place.Street scenes. Storefront: Zeldy's Place (Family Dry Goods Center). Borough Park. Street sign: Bobov Promenade. 00:06:19 - Men studying Talmud. 00:07:41 - B & H Photo: Hasidim behind the counter and customers. Hasidic man taking deliveries outside the store. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: 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. Williamsburg street scenes. Hasidim on the subway. 00:00:35 - Williamsburg: Special express buses for Hasidim, street scenes under the elevated train tracks. Hasidim and others going into the subway, at Marcy Avenue station. Hasidim on the train. Hasidic men reading The New York Times, Yiddish newspaper. Views of Manhattan, including World Trade Towers, from windows of the train. 00:18:28 - Williamsburg: stores and store-keepers, shoppers. Yiddish and Hebrew signs. Wilson Street. Delivery truck for J & J kosher dairy products. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library