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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America 1997 1h 30m Documentary List 100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 65% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Filmmakers Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky examine the...
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With insightful narration read by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker, the film goes back to the origins of Hasidism as an emotional, 18th-century protest against the scholarly rationalism of...
Aug 10, 1997 · Reviews. Aug 10, 1997 12:00am PT. A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. An even-handed portrait of a community that --- due largely to its extreme insularity --- is often misunderstood or attacked...
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"A Life Apart" enlivens its history and analysis with surprisingly tender family scenes, with evocations of the Hasidic world's deep mysticism, and with some of the community's most...
The documentary covers interviews with many Hassidic Jews, most living in NYC, some who have survived concentration camps and their descendants. It focuses on the Hassicdic way of life, the relationship of the individual with its community, and the relationship (or lack there of) of the Hassidic community with "America."
In this informative and edifying documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker, co-directors Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky trace the history of this separatist sect following its post-Holocaust exodus from Europe to the United States.
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...
