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.
Chanie Lazar, the wife of Chabad (Lubavitcher) emissary Berel Lazar, shopping in Moscow.Interview with a mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow. (Part 1) 12/9/1995
00:00:02 - (Partial audio) Moscow: Chanie Lazar shopping in a crowded food market. Vendors, displays of food. (Russian)
00:06:57 - Interview with Chanie Lazar: About how she's looking for vegetables for the Shabbos meal. Discusses menu. More footage of the market.
00:09:15 - Chanie explains that she can't buy meat there but that there is now finally a kosher butcher store in Moscow.
00:11:12 - Interview with mohel: About the days in which performing a bris (circumcision, customarily performed on boys when they are eight days old) was illegal in the USSR. The story of how he became a mohel and how it saved from being drafted to fight in Afghanistan. About learning to be a mohel in the U.S. (Yiddish)
00:17:39 - (Partial audio) Arrival of a a boy who is about to be circumcised and interview with his father. Arrival of Rabbi Berel Lazar. Mohel about how the boy himself wants to have a bris.
Chanie Lazar, the wife of Chabad (Lubavitcher) emissary Berel Lazar, shopping in Moscow.Interview with a mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow. (Part 1) 12/9/1995
00:00:02 - (Partial audio) Moscow: Chanie Lazar shopping in a crowded food market. Vendors, displays of food. (Russian)
00:06:57 - Interview with Chanie Lazar: About how she's looking for vegetables for the Shabbos meal. Discusses menu. More footage of the market.
00:09:15 - Chanie explains that she can't buy meat there but that there is now finally a kosher butcher store in Moscow.
00:11:12 - Interview with mohel: About the days in which performing a bris (circumcision, customarily performed on boys when they are eight days old) was illegal in the USSR. The story of how he became a mohel and how it saved from being drafted to fight in Afghanistan. About learning to be a mohel in the U.S. (Yiddish)
00:17:39 - (Partial audio) Arrival of a a boy who is about to be circumcised and interview with his father. Arrival of Rabbi Berel Lazar. Mohel about how the boy himself wants to have a bris.
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00:26:36 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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