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A 90-minute film, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic...
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A LIFE APART aims to present many aspects of American...
- About The Film
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America: Directed by Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky. With Leonard Nimoy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zeldy Abromowitz, Yaffa Eliach. Hasidic Jews seem alien, and even hostile, to those outside their culture,which frequently includes other Jews.
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- Documentary
- Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
- 1997-11
The film covers the lives of American Hasidic communities by tracing their roots in pre-War Europe, the near-extinction of their communities during the Holocaust, and the difficulties they faced when they began settling in America.
The first additional clip featured in the Hiding and Seeking website is from filmmakers Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum's first film, the Emmy-nominated A Life Apart: Hasidism in...
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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic migration after World War II, Hasidism found it most vital center in America.
5 giorni fa · A LIFE APART aims to present many aspects of American Hasidic life on film, exploring underlying struggles such as tensions between modernity and traditionalism.
This is the first documentary to present an in-depth, historically accurate portrait of America's Hasidic community. With moving, beautifully photographed portraits of family and communal life, A LIFE APART illuminates the deep spiritual resonance of Judaism as practiced by Brooklyn's Hasidim.
