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Interview with Mayer Schiller (3)/YU High School hockey team (1)
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Interview with Mayer Schiller (3)/yu High School Hockey Team (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730394.APA citation style
(1994). Interview with Mayer Schiller (3)/YU High School hockey team (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730394.Chicago citation style
Interview with Mayer Schiller (3)/yu High School Hockey Team (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730394.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. Interview with Mayer Schiller, a Skverer Hasid, who grew up as a secular Jew but chose to become Hasidic. (Part 3) 1/13/1994. Schiller coaching the hockey team of Yeshiva University High School for Boys, where he is a teacher. (Part 1) 1/11/1994 00:00:00 - Interview with Mayer Schiller: Prayer takes work. American society could learn a lot from the Hasidic world as a functioning society rooted in tradition and faith. To live this way you have to "abjure the realm." 00:03:21 - About gender roles in Hasidic society. A woman pursuing a career would interfere with her role as a mother and homemaker. Most Hasidic women content with their roles but some women who have now been corrupted by the outside world and are angry. 00:06:21 - About feminism as a horrible and decadent thing taken serious only by white Europeans as they destroy their own civilization. 00:07:20 - About normative Hasidism's view of Lubavitcher Hasidim. Formerly tolerant but now more critical because of Chabad's messianic fervor. 00:09:14 - About Hasidism encouraging a sense of humility balanced by awareness that we are loved and valued by God with whom we need to have a personal relationship. Importance of faith and trust in God. 00:11:09 - About how the documentary will be flawed because the pious elite is not going to talk to the filmmakers; nor will the most pious Hasidic women. 00:12:38 - About what Hasidim get out of being Hasidim and what they give up. 00:14:03 - About Yiddish as a Hasidic language: a cultural barrier but also a richly textured expression of a particular way of looking at the world. 00:15:13 - About the differences between his upbringing and the upbringing he is giving his children. 00:17:00 - Yeshiva University High School for Boys hockey team in the locker room at a game. Mayer Schiller.
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