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 scholar Arthur Hertzberg. (Part 3)
Terms you may encounter:
Kaddish: Prayer praising God; in this case, the Mourner’s Kaddish, recited as part of the ritual of mourning
Musaf: Additional morning service on the Sabbath and on festival
Shaharit: Daily morning liturgy
Shoykhet: Ritual slaughterer
Yahrzeit: The anniversary of the death of a parent or near relative, also pronounced yortsyt
00:00:02 - About how Hasidim feel an obligation to reproduce a community that was almost wiped out in the Holocaust. About how outsiders see Hasidic women and about how differently Hasidic women view their own lives. About how Hasidic women do have power. About how women are protected by the structure of the community. About Hasidic women and secular education and how they are also receiving more religious education than they used to.
00:05:30 - About attrition in the Hasidic community. About the future of Hasidic community as an enclave. About how American Judaism is still grappling with the legacy of emancipation and about how the future of secular Israeli identity is also cloudy. A story about different contemporaneous Jewish takes on Napoleon in Russia.
00:10:19 - (Audio only from about 11:00) About Hasidic interpretations of the Holocaust. A story about the Belzer Rebbe.
Interview with scholar Arthur Hertzberg. (Part 3)
Terms you may encounter:
Kaddish: Prayer praising God; in this case, the Mourner’s Kaddish, recited as part of the ritual of mourning
Musaf: Additional morning service on the Sabbath and on festival
Shaharit: Daily morning liturgy
Shoykhet: Ritual slaughterer
Yahrzeit: The anniversary of the death of a parent or near relative, also pronounced yortsyt
00:00:02 - About how Hasidim feel an obligation to reproduce a community that was almost wiped out in the Holocaust. About how outsiders see Hasidic women and about how differently Hasidic women view their own lives. About how Hasidic women do have power. About how women are protected by the structure of the community. About Hasidic women and secular education and how they are also receiving more religious education than they used to.
00:05:30 - About attrition in the Hasidic community. About the future of Hasidic community as an enclave. About how American Judaism is still grappling with the legacy of emancipation and about how the future of secular Israeli identity is also cloudy. A story about different contemporaneous Jewish takes on Napoleon in Russia.
00:10:19 - (Audio only from about 11:00) About Hasidic interpretations of the Holocaust. A story about the Belzer Rebbe.
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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