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Interview with Rabbi and Mrs. Lubart (4)
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Interview with Rabbi and Mrs. Lubart (4). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730362.APA citation style
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Interview with Rabbi and Mrs. Lubart (4). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730362.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 Mr. and Mrs. Lubart, Ger Hasidim. (Part 4) 6/1/1994 English and Yiddish Terms you may encounter: Bais Yaakov: Schools for Orthodox Jewish girls based on a school network founded in Poland before World War II Borukh Hashem: Blessed be God Derhaibeneh neshoma: Exhalted soul Gemara: The part of the Talmud that contains commentaries on the Mishnah, the Oral Law Khinekh: Education Misnagdic: In prewar Eastern Europe, traditional Jews who were opposed to Hasidism Rebbetzin: Wife of a rabbi Shiddukh: Match/engagement Sukkah: Hut erected for the holiday of Sukkot Torah Vodaath: Yeshiva in Brooklyn, also pronounced “Torah v’dahs” 00:00:07 - Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lubart. Mrs. Lubart: From a Shnobler Hasidic family. She was raised strictly religious in Chicago. Anecdote about how valued her widowed mother was in the Chicago religious Jewish community. 00:04:37 - Went to a Bais Yaakov school. Became a teacher. Became close to Rebbetzin Kaplan who came from Europe and started Bais Yaakov in America. Before that there was no formal religious education for girls. Rebbetzin Kaplan and her mentor Sarah Schenirer in Poland understood that the future of the Jewish people rested on the shoulders of the Jewish woman. 00:07:36 - More about the purpose of education for Jewish girls. Today it's even more difficult and more important to insulate our children from the immoral outside world. 00:08:54 - About how she met her husband through a brother-in-law, a fellow refugee in Shanghai. By the time they got married, there were many refugees here and yeshivas were being established. 00:10:29 - Rabbi Lubart: When he first came to America right after the war to Williamsburg, even the pious Jews were not fully taking advantage of the freedom of religion in America and were ashamed to dress Hasidic or to put up a sukkah in their own homes. He was the first on his block to have one. (Yiddish) 00:13:58 - About the declasse situation for rabbis in America before the war how that changed with the postwar arrival of Hasidic rebbes. 00:18:35 - In the misnagdic yeshiva-centered world, the ordinary person had a marginal role. Hasidism carved out a space for these Jews, leveling social distinctions, drawing thousands closer to God. 00:22:21 - (Audio only) Interview continues.
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