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 Jack and Esther Gold, Holocaust survivors, who came from Hasidic families in Poland. (Part 1) 5/8/1994
00:00:04 - Mr. Gold: About how is father is still watching over him and this is why he is loyal to the movement his father believed in. A story about getting new boots as a child.
00:03:44 - Mrs. Gold: Her father was a Radomsker Hasid who started out more secular and modern. Her mother was the breadwinner. Memories of Shabbos. Her parents survived the war and were forced to stop dressing Hasidic as a matter of survival. About Germans cutting off Jews' beards.
00:06:43 - Mrs. Gold: Does not want to dwell on the past and wants to focus on the good things she has in her life now and to live through her children.
00:08:01 - Mrs. Gold: Her father lived long enough to see her children and her mother to see some of her grandchildren.
00:08:43 - Mr. Gold: About going with his father in 1933 to the wedding of the Belzer Rebbe's daughter. In 1993 went to the wedding of the Belzer Rebbe's son in Jerusalem. Compares the two events. Son represents continuity. Belzer Rebbe's prediction that there will be Belzer Hasidim until the coming of the messiah.
00:14:44 - Mr. Gold: About his financial support of Belzer Hasidism and how he feels when he walks into the Belz synagogue.
00:16:39 - Mr. Gold: More about how having children influenced his evolution from rejecting Judaism and Hasidism to his embrace of it. Being Hasidic is doing more than you're called upon to do.
Interview with Jack and Esther Gold, Holocaust survivors, who came from Hasidic families in Poland. (Part 1) 5/8/1994
00:00:04 - Mr. Gold: About how is father is still watching over him and this is why he is loyal to the movement his father believed in. A story about getting new boots as a child.
00:03:44 - Mrs. Gold: Her father was a Radomsker Hasid who started out more secular and modern. Her mother was the breadwinner. Memories of Shabbos. Her parents survived the war and were forced to stop dressing Hasidic as a matter of survival. About Germans cutting off Jews' beards.
00:06:43 - Mrs. Gold: Does not want to dwell on the past and wants to focus on the good things she has in her life now and to live through her children.
00:08:01 - Mrs. Gold: Her father lived long enough to see her children and her mother to see some of her grandchildren.
00:08:43 - Mr. Gold: About going with his father in 1933 to the wedding of the Belzer Rebbe's daughter. In 1993 went to the wedding of the Belzer Rebbe's son in Jerusalem. Compares the two events. Son represents continuity. Belzer Rebbe's prediction that there will be Belzer Hasidim until the coming of the messiah.
00:14:44 - Mr. Gold: About his financial support of Belzer Hasidism and how he feels when he walks into the Belz synagogue.
00:16:39 - Mr. Gold: More about how having children influenced his evolution from rejecting Judaism and Hasidism to his embrace of it. Being Hasidic is doing more than you're called upon to do.
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English
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1997
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