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Street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim
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Street Scenes In Williamsburg On Purim. Daum, Menachem. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730425.APA citation style
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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. 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.
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