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Ben Zion Horowitz at work as appraiser/Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1)
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Ben Zion Horowitz At Work As Appraiser/interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194917.APA citation style
(1994). Ben Zion Horowitz at work as appraiser/Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194917.Chicago citation style
Ben Zion Horowitz At Work As Appraiser/interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194917.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. Ben Zion Horowitz, a Bobover Hasid, at work as appraiser. Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz. (Part 1) 10/13/1994 Terms you may encounter: Learn: In this context, study Talmud Simhat Torah:Festival celebrating the completion of the annual reading of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses; also pronounced “simkhes toyra” 00:00:41 - Ben Zion Horowitz at work as an appraiser in a gallery at a Reform temple: examining a 500-700-year- old Esther Scroll (Megilat Esther). Examines Hasidic-themed paintings, by Ari Adler. Notes that most buyers of these paintings are not Hasidic themselves and that this hints that they want a connection with the past, with something mystical. 00:14:28 - Talks about his own collection of Holocaust artifacts as way of understanding his father's experience. Talks about Ari Adler's Holocaust paintings. Horowitz's choice to dress as his forebears dressed is in order to "have the past in the present." About how someone told him what his grandfather was like. 00:20:17 - About how after the war his father was completely cut off from Judaism and about how an encounter with Ger Hasidim sparked his return to Hasidism, his memory of his parents, Kaluszhitser Hasidim, adherents of a Hasidic dynasty that did not survive the Holocaust.
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