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.
Street scenes and signs during Passover, 1993.
00:00:01 - (No audio) Signs and street scenes: A store that will be closed on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). A lamppost advertising a "Pesach Spectacle." Two small boys walking with their father. A woman selling flowers. Hasidic men. A young woman wearing a shaytl (wig).
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00:01:28 - (No audio) Passersby: Woman wearing sheitl and hat. Sign: Yochsin Institute: Research in Jewish Roots. Kosher Dairy Luncheonette. Moshe's Fruit Paradise. Posted times for morning and afternoon prayers. A kosher store under the supervision of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy.
00:05:08 - (No audio) Signs: Goldberg Pesach Grocery. Rally in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 92nd birthday. Ad for soda company. A lecture for women on preparation for Passover by Rav Label Katz. Ad for kosher for Passover toiletries. A play at Brooklyn Academy of Music: Blik un tsurik.
00:10:19 - Kosher soap in a window display. Menachem Daum and his sons shopping in a Passover store. One of the sons reads out the shopping list and explains what makes something kosher for Passover. Other shoppers, shelves with products.Sign advertising Afikomen special on tapes and books.
00:10:28 - (No audio) Outside Goldberg's Pesach Grocery: passersby, girl with full shopping cart, people leaving store with shopping bags.
00:14:45 - (No audio) Signs: Pesach spectacle: Torah Tots. Das Torah of our Gedolei Yisroel: Proper Dress in Accordance with Halacha [Jewish law]: poster urging women to dress modestly.
00:18:06 - Audio only. Wild sound.
Street scenes and signs during Passover, 1993.
00:00:01 - (No audio) Signs and street scenes: A store that will be closed on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). A lamppost advertising a "Pesach Spectacle." Two small boys walking with their father. A woman selling flowers. Hasidic men. A young woman wearing a shaytl (wig).
.
00:01:28 - (No audio) Passersby: Woman wearing sheitl and hat. Sign: Yochsin Institute: Research in Jewish Roots. Kosher Dairy Luncheonette. Moshe's Fruit Paradise. Posted times for morning and afternoon prayers. A kosher store under the supervision of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy.
00:05:08 - (No audio) Signs: Goldberg Pesach Grocery. Rally in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 92nd birthday. Ad for soda company. A lecture for women on preparation for Passover by Rav Label Katz. Ad for kosher for Passover toiletries. A play at Brooklyn Academy of Music: Blik un tsurik.
00:10:19 - Kosher soap in a window display. Menachem Daum and his sons shopping in a Passover store. One of the sons reads out the shopping list and explains what makes something kosher for Passover. Other shoppers, shelves with products.Sign advertising Afikomen special on tapes and books.
00:10:28 - (No audio) Outside Goldberg's Pesach Grocery: passersby, girl with full shopping cart, people leaving store with shopping bags.
00:14:45 - (No audio) Signs: Pesach spectacle: Torah Tots. Das Torah of our Gedolei Yisroel: Proper Dress in Accordance with Halacha [Jewish law]: poster urging women to dress modestly.
00:18:06 - Audio only. Wild sound.
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00:18:31 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
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