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Jun 9, 2021 · In Brooklyn’s hipster Williamsburg neighborhood, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture By Shira Hanau June 9, 2021 10:34 am People walking through Hasidic Williamsburg on Sept. 29, 2020.
“Rather than an Eastern European shtetl miraculously transported to Brooklyn, the Hasidic enclave in Williamsburg is a distinctly American creation, and its journey from the 1940s to the present ...
Jun 1, 2021 · Today more than 57,000 Satmar Hasidic Jews live in South Williamsburg. And for the past four years photographer Jack Seidenberg (whose own great-grandparents emigrated to Williamsburg) has been documenting the Hasidic community here. The included images comprise a part of “Szatmárnémeti Williamsburg,” Seidenberg’s black-and-white film ...
Mar 22, 2023 · Watch on. Traveling filmmaker Drew Binsky made a thoughtful documentary about the Hasidic Jewish community in the New York City neighborhood of South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. From the outside, this community appears closed off to outsiders. Yet despite these differences, Binksy found, with the help of trans activist Abby Stein, who grew up Hasid ...
Beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the area received a large concentration of Holocaust survivors, many of whom were Hasidic Jews from rural areas of Hungary and Romania. These people were led by several Hasidic leaders, among them the rebbes of Satmar, Klausenberg, Vien, Pupa, Tzehlem, and Skver. In addition, Williamsburg contained ...
Jul 11, 2014 · July 10, 2014. On a recent sunny Monday, a bespectacled young woman stood at Broadway and Marcy Avenue, a Brooklyn crossing where hipsters, Hispanics and Hasidim mingle in a way that defines ...
Sep 19, 2018 · Sept. 19, 2018. At an Orthodox Jewish wedding in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the girls dance in the women-only section. Sharon Pulwer was lost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shortly after moving here ...
