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.

Diamond district in Manhattan. Street scenes in Williamsburg. 11/23/1994

00:00:30 - (No audio) Street scenes on West 47th Street, in Manhattan's diamond district. Passersby, including some Hasidim. Men and a few women.

00:12:09 - Inside a Hasidic grocery store. Street scenes in Williamsburg. Yeshiva school buses. Girls in school uniform.

Footage shot for the documentary film, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

Hasidism, Hasidim, Orthodox Judaism, Jews, American, New York (State)--New York—Brooklyn, New York (State)--New York—Manhattan, New York (State)--New York—Williamsburg

00:17:49 (HH:MM:SS)

English

1997

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