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Interview with Gold family (3)

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Interview with Gold Family (3). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194855.

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Daum, M., & Rudavsky, O. (1994). Interview with Gold family (3). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194855.

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Interview with Gold Family (3). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194855.

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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 Jack and Esther Gold, Holocaust survivors, who came from Hasidic families in Poland. (Part 3) 5/8/1994 00:00:00 - Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Gold. Mrs. Gold: About attending Polish school and also a Bais Yaakov school for religious education as a child. About managing to pray every day when she was in a concentration camp. Earlier in the war learned some Hebrew and English. 00:04:28 - Mrs. Gold: About the Bais Yakov schools and its founder Sarah Shenirer and its mission to provide girls with a religious education. About Bnos Zion, a teachers' seminary for older girls. Prayer and psalms are still a big part of her life. 00:07:46 - Mrs. Gold: A prayer book (sidur) kept her going in the concentration camp. About the power of prayer. 00:09:10 - Mrs. Gold: About how when she met her husband he was no longer religious but she hoped that he would eventually change. 00:11:21 - Mr. Gold: About how only a very few Holocaust survivors returned to religious practice right after the war, in the displaced persons camps. About the growth of Hasidism in the U.S. as more survivors and rebbes came here. Ger and Belz first revived in Israel. Importance of yeshivas in the revival. 00:14:46 - Mr. Gold: About what he told his children about the teachings of the Belzer Rebbe. About his son's bar mitzvah. About a trip with his son to see the Belzer community in Belgium. 00:17:25 - Mr. Gold: More about the trip to Belgium. About how the Belzer Rebbe attracted him and his son to Hasidism. About his close relationship with the Belzer Rebbe. 00:21:04 - Portrait of Belzer Rebbe and Hasidic-themed artwork on the walls.
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