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Jewish summer camp in Ukraine (4)/ Nature scenes

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Jewish Summer Camp In Ukraine (4)/ Nature Scenes. Daum, Menachem. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730286.

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Daum, M., & Rudavsky, O. Jewish summer camp in Ukraine (4)/ Nature scenes. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730286.

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Jewish Summer Camp In Ukraine (4)/ Nature Scenes. Daum, Menachem. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730286.

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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. Satmar Hasid Nuta Kaufman and others at a Jewish summer camp on or near the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, Uman, Ukraine (Part 4). Nature scenes. 00:00:02 - (Partial audio) Nuta Kaufman taking off and putting on tefillin and his tallis for morning prayer. A man washes the floor. Women arrive. A woman prays or reads psalms. 00:05:44 - (No audio) Nature scenes. 00:12:58 - (Partial audio) Interview with Nuta Kaufman: About his being there to help Ukrainian Jews to reconnect with their Jewishness and how it can be a long process. Anecdote about a boy with a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. (In Yiddish) 00:15:29 - Nature scenes. 00:17:30 - (Partial audio) Men play table tennis as campers look on. Other scenes of the camp and campers. A young boy from Uman who knows "a little Yiddish" is questioned by Kaufman. He asks him if he "feels God" when he prays and the boy is silent. Kaufman jokes, "Say yes." Kaufman tells him that a Jews must believe that God is in the world.
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