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Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1)

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730328.

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Daum, M., & Rudavsky, O. (1994). Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730328.

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730328.

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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 Ben Zion Horowitz, a Bobover Hasid. (Part 1) 1/17/1994 00:00:24 - Interview with Ben Zion Horowitz: About his education. By age 10 was studying Talmud. Wanted to understand his past. Father was Holocaust survivor who did not have opportunity for proper education so son had to rely on school for this. Childhood misbehavior. At thirteen sent to England to Bobover Hasidim. 00:05:07 - Never felt deprived of sports or American culture because he enjoyed playing with brothers and holidays, like Sukkoth. His own children also have happy lives. Watched television only once in his life. 00:08:07 - From a family of ten children plus two adopted siblings. About Bobov yeshiva in England. 00:11:27 - The power of the Talmud to shut out the world. Quote from the Belzer Rebbe, stories about the Vishnitzer Rebbe and the Bobover Rebbe. 00:16:24 - About his naive ideas about marriage as a teenager. About being matched to his wife. He wanted wealthy in-laws so that he could go on studying. First meeting with future wife.
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