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.
Interview with Mayer and Sara Horowitz, Bobover Hasidim. (Part 2) 1/17/1994
Terms you may encounter:
Bais Yaakov: School for Orthodox Jewish girls based on a school network founded in Poland before World War II.
Khaider: Traditional Jewish elementary school.
00:00:41 - Interview with Sara Horowitz: How she was hired as a kindergarten teacher at the Bobov khaider. How she had to change her Bais Yaakov pronunciation of Hebrew and Yiddish to Bobov Hasidic dialect. Most of the students were the children of Holocaust survivors. How she was fixed up with her husband.
00:04:19 - About how at first they had a "language barrier" because her Yiddish wasn't good and his English wasn't good. More about how the match was made. She is from an Orthodox but not Hasidic family. Her father was close with different Hasidic groups and rebbes. Had to adjust to how her husband dressed: very Hasidic in a time when few were dressing that way.
00:08:15 - Memories of Williamsburg in the 1930s-1950s. Arrival of Satmar Rebbe in U.S.
00:09:16 - Interview with Mayer Horowitz (Yiddish): About the difficulties of establishing Hasidism in America after World War II. How Bobover Rebbe established schools to work with refugee children, helped families with apartments and jobs.
00:13:12 -Sara. Horowitz (English): About living in Crown Heights and sending her boys to school in Borough Park and her daughter to a Bais Yaakov in Williamsburg in the 1950s when there were no schools for Hasidim in Crown Heights. About going to parks in Crown Heights and to Prospect Park with the children.
00:16:23 - About acceding to the Bobover Rebbe's wishes and sending her children away to study in yeshivas in England and Israel. About making a match for her son Ben Zion with the aid of a matchmaker.
Interview with Mayer and Sara Horowitz, Bobover Hasidim. (Part 2) 1/17/1994
Terms you may encounter:
Bais Yaakov: School for Orthodox Jewish girls based on a school network founded in Poland before World War II.
Khaider: Traditional Jewish elementary school.
00:00:41 - Interview with Sara Horowitz: How she was hired as a kindergarten teacher at the Bobov khaider. How she had to change her Bais Yaakov pronunciation of Hebrew and Yiddish to Bobov Hasidic dialect. Most of the students were the children of Holocaust survivors. How she was fixed up with her husband.
00:04:19 - About how at first they had a "language barrier" because her Yiddish wasn't good and his English wasn't good. More about how the match was made. She is from an Orthodox but not Hasidic family. Her father was close with different Hasidic groups and rebbes. Had to adjust to how her husband dressed: very Hasidic in a time when few were dressing that way.
00:08:15 - Memories of Williamsburg in the 1930s-1950s. Arrival of Satmar Rebbe in U.S.
00:09:16 - Interview with Mayer Horowitz (Yiddish): About the difficulties of establishing Hasidism in America after World War II. How Bobover Rebbe established schools to work with refugee children, helped families with apartments and jobs.
00:13:12 -Sara. Horowitz (English): About living in Crown Heights and sending her boys to school in Borough Park and her daughter to a Bais Yaakov in Williamsburg in the 1950s when there were no schools for Hasidim in Crown Heights. About going to parks in Crown Heights and to Prospect Park with the children.
00:16:23 - About acceding to the Bobover Rebbe's wishes and sending her children away to study in yeshivas in England and Israel. About making a match for her son Ben Zion with the aid of a matchmaker.
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00:22:32 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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