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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...
5 de nov. de 2015 · 63. 18K views 8 years ago. 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...
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.
Overview. 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 early Hasidic rabbis are shown to be wary of life in America as a place of necessary refuge.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this groundbreaking documentary was among the first American films to offer a full, distinctive, inside look at the Hasidic Jewish communities that found their most vital enclaves in America after mass migrations post–World War II.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FILM: FORMAT AND APPROACH. A LIFE APART aims to present many aspects of American Hasidic life on film, exploring underlying struggles such as tensions between...
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.
