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Lazar family in Brooklyn (2)
Abstract
Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe.

The Lazar family at home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and getting photos taken for passports to return to Russia as Lubavitcher (Chabad) shichim (outeach emissaries). (Part 2) 11/28/1993.
Terms you may encounter in this segment:
Moshiach (Messiah)


00:00:53 - Berel and Chanie Lazar feeding their children. (Yiddish)

00:12:11 - Berel and Chanie Lazar and their children getting passport pictures taken in a hardware store.

00:13:08 - Berel and Chanie Lazar leaving their apartment building with their children and walking down Eastern Parkway. They talk about candy (in Yiddish). Closeup of picture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in the baby carriage. Chanie asks them what synagogue they are passing and one child says, "The Rebbe's synagogue." Berel and Chanie and the children chant "We want Moshiach now!"

00:17:02 - Table outside 770 Eastern Parkway with Lubavitcher Rebbe souvenirs: photos and postcards. Berel Lazar and his family walk by and one child joyfully cries out, "Rebbe!" Store signs and street banners celebrating the Lubavitcher Rebbe as the Messiah.

00:18:22 - (No audio) Chanie Lazar gives her children lollypops. Stores and van with signs celebrating the Lubavitcher Rebbe as the Messiah. A boy with sweatshirt "May the King live." The family arrives at a store where they will get passport photos made.

00:21:28 - The family walks on a street intersecting with Kingston Street. House with signs celebrating the Lubavitcher Rebbe as the Messiah. The family walks up the stairs of the house.
Duration
00:23:32 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Copyright Date
1997
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