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Munkacs Hasidim celebrating Purim
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Munkacs Hasidim Celebrating Purim. Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730380.APA citation style
(1994). Munkacs Hasidim celebrating Purim. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730380.Chicago citation style
Munkacs Hasidim Celebrating Purim. Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730380.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. Munkacs Hasidim Celebrating Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 2/25/1994 00:10:32 - (Partial audio) Shot from women's balcony: Munkacs Rebbe dancing in the Munkacs synagogue in a circle of men, some in costume. He dances with some. Boys and men watching. Girls and women watch from balcony. 00:16:39 - Shots of crowd. Young boy on Munkacs Rebbe's lap. A cup of wine is poured from a wine fountain. Other children and men clamber onto the giant tish (table). The rest of this sequence is filmed from the women's balcony without audio. Cups of wine blessed by the Rebbe are handed out. A crowd of men surround the Rebbe and help him put on his fur coat. Some kiss his hand.
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