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Upshern (1)

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Upshern (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194853.

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Daum, M., & Rudavsky, O. (1994). Upshern (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194853.

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Upshern (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194853.

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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. Upshern ceremony (ritual marking a boy's first haircut) for a son of the Naiman family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 1) 8/13/1994 00:00:05 - (No audio) Neiman family: A boy getting his head shaved except for peyos (side curls worn by ultra-Orthodox men). 00:01:02 - A boy getting his upshern (first haircut). Guests gathered for the festive occasion. Relatives take turns for the honor of helping with the haircut. He reacts to the sight of his first tales kotn and yarmulke with delight. (Yiddish, some English) 00:09:24 - A yarmulke is placed on the boy's head. His older brother helps his little brother put on his first tsitses (tassels worn on traditional garments by Jewish males as reminders of the commandments of Deuteronomy 22:12 and Numbers 15:37–41). The younger boy says the blessing for putting on tsitses. 00:11:01 - He is wished mazel tov by his grandfather, Rabbi Lubart, and other relatives, shakes hands with cousins and siblings , and gives out bags of candy as his mother tries to find a yarmulke that will stay on his head. 00:20:17 - The boy is wrapped in a tallis (prayer shawl) and driven to the yeshiva.
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