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.
School buses picking up Hasidic children to bring them to school. Interview with Moshe Levertov, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid. (Part 1) 6/1/1994
00:00:05 - Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion school bus picking up a child. Girls in school uniform. Beys Esther Sandz and Klausenberg school bus with girls. Schoolbus: Bais Yaakov of Pupa. School bus of yeshiva of Vishnitz Hasidim.Other street scenes in Borough Park with focus on children going to school. "Moshiach " (Messiah) signs on cars, doors.
00:10:06 - Rabbi Moshe Levertov, a scribe, at work.
00:10:47 - Family photo.
00:11:17 - Interview with Moshe Levertov: About being smuggled out of the USSR with other Lubavitcher boys and eventually coming to the U.S.
00:13:27 - About how his father remained defiantly Jewish even in USSR. Was a knitter doing piecework. Secretly was also the only mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow. Secret circumcisions (brises) in the USSR in the 1920s-1930s.
00:18:29 - About how he and his brother didn't go to school. About how in the synagogue on Saturdays people would be missing because they'd been arrested. How synagogues were closed down in 1938 (?).
00:21:08 - About how the authorities ripped up the Torah scrolls and gave them to shoemakers.
00:22:29 - Audio only. Wild sound.
School buses picking up Hasidic children to bring them to school. Interview with Moshe Levertov, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid. (Part 1) 6/1/1994
00:00:05 - Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion school bus picking up a child. Girls in school uniform. Beys Esther Sandz and Klausenberg school bus with girls. Schoolbus: Bais Yaakov of Pupa. School bus of yeshiva of Vishnitz Hasidim.Other street scenes in Borough Park with focus on children going to school. "Moshiach " (Messiah) signs on cars, doors.
00:10:06 - Rabbi Moshe Levertov, a scribe, at work.
00:10:47 - Family photo.
00:11:17 - Interview with Moshe Levertov: About being smuggled out of the USSR with other Lubavitcher boys and eventually coming to the U.S.
00:13:27 - About how his father remained defiantly Jewish even in USSR. Was a knitter doing piecework. Secretly was also the only mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow. Secret circumcisions (brises) in the USSR in the 1920s-1930s.
00:18:29 - About how he and his brother didn't go to school. About how in the synagogue on Saturdays people would be missing because they'd been arrested. How synagogues were closed down in 1938 (?).
00:21:08 - About how the authorities ripped up the Torah scrolls and gave them to shoemakers.
00:22:29 - Audio only. Wild sound.
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00:22:55 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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