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.
Bris (circumcision) of the son of Berel and Chanie Lazar, Pittsburgh. Interview with Chanie Lazar. (Part 2) 2/21/1995
00:00:24 - After the bris: guests milling around talking, eating.
00:01:16 - Rabbi Berel Lazar gives a speech in Russian. Men sing nigunim (traditional melodies). Adults and children at tables in the dining room.
00:05:36 - Men dancing. They are joined by Rabbi Lazar and his little daughter.
00:07:25 - Rabbi Lazar explains that he made his speech in Russian to Jews who have come from Moscow to Pittsburgh.
00:08:39 - (Partial audio) Children watching from the women's gallery. Chanie holding her son.
00:09:50 - (Partial audio) Young children eating snacks in a classroom. Chanie and Berel arrive back home with their baby and are greeted by their older children. Family photos, including wedding portraits, boy with long hair before his upshern (ritual marking a boy's first haircut). Portraits of Shneur Zalmen of Liady, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, and Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
00:13:55 - (No audio) Interview with Chanie Lazar, as she holds her baby. Other Lazar children,including a boy with long hair who has not yet had his upshern. Mrs. Derin takes the baby.
Bris (circumcision) of the son of Berel and Chanie Lazar, Pittsburgh. Interview with Chanie Lazar. (Part 2) 2/21/1995
00:00:24 - After the bris: guests milling around talking, eating.
00:01:16 - Rabbi Berel Lazar gives a speech in Russian. Men sing nigunim (traditional melodies). Adults and children at tables in the dining room.
00:05:36 - Men dancing. They are joined by Rabbi Lazar and his little daughter.
00:07:25 - Rabbi Lazar explains that he made his speech in Russian to Jews who have come from Moscow to Pittsburgh.
00:08:39 - (Partial audio) Children watching from the women's gallery. Chanie holding her son.
00:09:50 - (Partial audio) Young children eating snacks in a classroom. Chanie and Berel arrive back home with their baby and are greeted by their older children. Family photos, including wedding portraits, boy with long hair before his upshern (ritual marking a boy's first haircut). Portraits of Shneur Zalmen of Liady, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, and Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
00:13:55 - (No audio) Interview with Chanie Lazar, as she holds her baby. Other Lazar children,including a boy with long hair who has not yet had his upshern. Mrs. Derin takes the baby.
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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