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 Yaffa Eliach. (Part 1) 2/16/1995
00:00:14 - Interview with Yaffa Eliach: About the Ba'al Shem Tov and the birth of Hasidism. The Besht, as a revolutionary and a mystic. About his close relationship to his wife and daughter. About an emphasis on joy in life.
00:08:40 - About the book In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov as the source of most information about him.
00:10:28 - About the conflict between Hasidism and Misnagdism (Jews who were opposed to Hasidism) as exemplified by the Baal Shem Tov and the Vilna Gaon. About Hasidism as an anti-establishment movement. About the ex-communication of the Hasidic community.
00:14:42 - About messianism in Hasidism. About Chabad (Lubavitcher) messianism.
00:18:02 - About Hasidism as a challenge to the social hierarchy and to Jewish institutions. But it replaced it with its own social hierarchy and institutions. A gate-opener to dissent within the Jewish community.
00:20:32 - About the Enlightenment as a challenge to Hasidism and Misnagdism.
00:22:44 - (Audio Only) More about the Ba'al Shem Tov, messianism, the conflict between Hasidism and Misnagdism, on emotionalism vs. scholarship, about the influence of Hasidic thought on her ability to carry out scholarship on the Holocaust, about her first exposure to Hasidim and Hasidism, about the Satmar Rebbe's interpretation of the Holocaust.
Interview with scholar Yaffa Eliach. (Part 1) 2/16/1995
00:00:14 - Interview with Yaffa Eliach: About the Ba'al Shem Tov and the birth of Hasidism. The Besht, as a revolutionary and a mystic. About his close relationship to his wife and daughter. About an emphasis on joy in life.
00:08:40 - About the book In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov as the source of most information about him.
00:10:28 - About the conflict between Hasidism and Misnagdism (Jews who were opposed to Hasidism) as exemplified by the Baal Shem Tov and the Vilna Gaon. About Hasidism as an anti-establishment movement. About the ex-communication of the Hasidic community.
00:14:42 - About messianism in Hasidism. About Chabad (Lubavitcher) messianism.
00:18:02 - About Hasidism as a challenge to the social hierarchy and to Jewish institutions. But it replaced it with its own social hierarchy and institutions. A gate-opener to dissent within the Jewish community.
00:20:32 - About the Enlightenment as a challenge to Hasidism and Misnagdism.
00:22:44 - (Audio Only) More about the Ba'al Shem Tov, messianism, the conflict between Hasidism and Misnagdism, on emotionalism vs. scholarship, about the influence of Hasidic thought on her ability to carry out scholarship on the Holocaust, about her first exposure to Hasidim and Hasidism, about the Satmar Rebbe's interpretation of the Holocaust.
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1997
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