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Interview with Samuel Heilman (3)/Fragment of home movie of the Gold family
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Interview with Samuel Heilman (3)/Fragment of home movie of the Gold family. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194963.Chicago citation style
Interview with Samuel Heilman (3)/fragment of Home Movie of the Gold Family. Daum, Menachem. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194963.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 scholar Samuel Heilman. (Part 3) Fragment of home movie of the Gold family, ca. 1960s. 00:00:06 - Interview with Samuel Heilman: About why Hasidim have many children and the importance of children for Hasidism. An anecdote about the importance, for the Bobover Rebbe, of the enthusiasm of young boys. About how Hasidim have created an entire world for their children. 00:04:12 - Anecdote about B & H Photo, a Satmar Hasidic-owned business, used to illustrate how making a living puts Hasidim in contact with American culture. About the dilemmas that Hasidim face when working outside the community. 00:07:34 - About why the Hasidic way of life is expensive: large families, kosher food, parochial school, high housing costs, need to give to charity. About how many work within the Jewish community. About yeshiva students getting food stamps, Pell grants. 00:11:14 - About Hasidic ways of marriage, sex, and love as particularly distinctive of Hasidism. Marriage as a contract within the community. About how young people are given sex education right before marriage. 00:16:12 - About Hasidim's relationship with their neighbors related to their living in the "inner city." They are in the neighborhood and not of the neighborhood. Aloof from African-Americans no more than aloof from other Americans. Hasidim seen as privileged and snobbish. 00:19:45 - About how the fall of the Soviet Union has made pilgrimages to the places of their origin and to the graves of their rebbes possible. Also a way of demonstrating to local people that they have survived. 00:22:41 - Fragment of a home movie of the Gold family (ca. 1950s-1960s). Mr. Jack Gold and two of his children.
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