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Interview with Mrs. Derin (4)/ The Chabad Yeshiva in Pittsburgh
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Interview with Mrs. Derin (4)/ The Chabad Yeshiva In Pittsburgh. Daum, Menachem. 1995. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730277.APA citation style
(1995). Interview with Mrs. Derin (4)/ The Chabad Yeshiva in Pittsburgh. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730277.Chicago citation style
Interview with Mrs. Derin (4)/ The Chabad Yeshiva In Pittsburgh. Daum, Menachem. 1995. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730277.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 Mrs. Derin, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid in Pittsburgh. Night before the bris (circumcision) of her grandson, the child of her daughter Chanie and her husband, Berel Lazar.The Chabad Yeshiva in Pittsburgh. (Part 4) 2/20/1995 Terms you may encounter: Brukha: Blessing Mikva: Ritual bath Tefillin: Leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer 00:00:03 - Mrs. Derin and grandchildren. 00:00:53 - Interview with Mrs. Derin: About a blessing the Lubavitcher Rebbe gave her mother. (Daughter-in-law and grandchildren enter.) About the murder of her grandfather which spurred her parents to leave Russia. About the negative response to someone wearing a sheitl (wig) in America. About her father's introduction of Chabad and Lubavitch to Pittburgh. 00:06:29 - About her father's establishment of a yeshiva in Pittsburgh. About how few Jews knew anything about Hasidism in America before World War II and how Chabad made Hasidism "a household name." (Shows photographs). 00:11:07 - (No audio) The Chabad Yeshiva in Pittsburgh: Yeshiva Schools, Chabad Center. Men laying tefillin and praying morning prayer, men arriving for prayer. 00:13:36 - (No audio) Street sign: Yeshiva Way. Men at morning prayer in the yeshiva,including Rabbi Berel Lazar. People dropping coins in the charity pushke.
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