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Interview with Rabbi Lubart (2)
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Interview with Rabbi Lubart (2). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730364.APA citation style
(1994). Interview with Rabbi Lubart (2). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730364.Chicago citation style
Interview with Rabbi Lubart (2). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730364.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 Rabbi Lubart, a Ger Hasid. (Yiddish) (Part 2) 6/1/994 00:00:00 - Interview with Rabbi Lubart: About how Zionist leader Zev Jabotinsky came and spoke in Warsaw a few days before World War II began. About how Jewish leaders failed to fully apprehend the danger they were in and failed to unite for the sake of the community. More about the difficulties of establishing the Lublin Yeshiva and how this contrasts with the situtation for yeshivas in America and Israel today. 00:05:28 - Contrasting the economic situation for Jews in prewar -- terrible poverty, ineconomic inequality -- with the situation of Hasidim in America. More about the foundations laid by Aaron Kotler for the revival of Hasidism in America by establishing strong financial support from wealthy for Orthodox Jewish institutions. 00:11:11 - About the early days of Beth Medrash Govoha, the yeshiva established in Lakewood, New Jersey in 1942 by Aaron Kotler, as a non-Hasidic ultra-Orthox institution to facilitate continuing Torah study. About how Hasidic families were the wellspring of the revival of Orthodox Jewish life in America after the war. During the war, Shanghai became a center of Torah learning and also a paragon of Jewish unity and self-help because of the rabbis and students of the Mir Yeshiva and other Lithuanian yeshivas who found refuge there, including Rabbi Chaim Shulevitch, in contrast to the lack of Jewish unity in Poland before the war. 00:17:08 - About the importance of small synagogues set up independently in America for communal revival. About how Hasidism was deficient in organizing material relief for poor Jews in Poland before the war and how it was the rebbes who took an active role in helping their followers who succeeded in creating communities in America. 00:21:15 - More about poverty in Poland and the failure of wealthy Jews to support the Jewish community there. 00:22:42 - (Audio only) Wild sound. A bit of conversation.
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