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Interview with Pearl Gluck (1)
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Interview with Pearl Gluck (1). Daum, Menachem. 1995. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194967.APA citation style
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Interview with Pearl Gluck (1). Daum, Menachem. 1995. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194967.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 Pearl Gluck, who grew up Hasidic in Borough Park. (Part 1) 12/3/1995 00:00:21 - Interview with Pearl Gluck: About her early awareness of the Holocaust. Comes from a family of Holocaust survivors. Meaning of the Holocaust for Hasidim. How Hasidim today is modeled on interwar Hasidic life in Europe. About how Hasidim today, though, have different capabilities because of being American. Her family is Hungarian Hasidic. 00:05:43 - About how some Jews became more Hasidic in America than they had been back in Europe. About how she thinks Hasidim are becoming more American, more open to the outside world, more materialistic. About use of new technology, such as video, in Hasidic life. 00:08:35 - About how she went from going to a Hasidic school to a Modern Orthodox school. About teaching about Hasidim to non-Hasidim and about stereotypes of Hasidim. 00:11:30 - About the importance of storytelling in Hasidism. A story about the Kalever Rebbe and a shepherd's song that became a favorite Hasidic tune. Sings song (in Hungarian). 00:14:30 - About how the loss of Hasidism would be a loss to Jewish tradition. About how many Hasidic women are happy and have their own realm. About how she did feel deprived as a girl but how a feeling of validation grows as girls get older. 00:16:45 - About the relationship of Hasidic women and the Rebbe and Rebbetzin and the status of the Rebbetzin (rabbi's wife). 00:17:49 - About how Hasidim are no more racist than other communities but do have a sense of superior spirituality. 00:19:36 - About how she goes back to Borough Park regularly and has a relationship with her family but doesn't bring her "whole self" with her. 00:20:51 - Misses the sense of spiritual certainty, community, family, a sense of place, and other things from the Hasidic world she grew up in. About how her family increasingly accepts her as she is now. 00:22:33 - (Audio only) About stereotypes of Hasidim. About how Hasidim want to be insular. Analogy to Roma.
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