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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 migration...
- Introduction to Hasidism
The history of Hasidism, which encompasses a variety of...
- About the Film
Synopsis. Format and Approach. Significance to a Broad...
- About the Producers
Site Layout and Graphic Design by Dov B. Katz.Copyright ©...
- Teachers' Resources
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES [ Home | Introduction to Hasidism |...
- Site Map
Inside the Community: A Holy Life; Boundaries & Separation;...
- Additional ESSAYS on Hasidism
A Life Apart: Hasidism In America -- Additional Resources....
- Introduction to Hasidism
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
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America is 1997 American documentary film produced for PBS about Hasidic Judaism in America produced and directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky, written by Daum and Robert Seidman, and narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this groundbreaking documentary was among the first American films to offer a full, distinctive, inside look at the traditional Eastern European Jewish communities that found their most vital enclaves in America after mass migrations post–World War II.
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. Full Description. The Hasidic movement started in 18th-century Europe, stressing joy and ecstatic faith, in opposition to the orthodoxy of the time. This is the first documentary to present an in-depth, historically accurate portrait of America's Hasidic community.
