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 Mrs. Deren, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid in Pittsburgh. (Part 1) 2/21/1995
00:00:20 - Interview with Mrs. Deren. About her family history. About the suppression of religion in the USSR in the 1920s and about how her father was part of a group of young Hasidic men coalescing about the Lubavitcher Rebbe who was then in Rostov. A story about the Rebbe.
00:05:12 - About her parents' engagement in Russia in the 1920s and their decision to leave Russia.
00:08:00 - More about her father. About how her family relocated from Chicago to Pittsburgh, at the request of the Rebbe, to establish a school.
00:11:35 - More about her father's lack of fluency in English. About how her father tenaciously carried out the Rebbe's mission. About how the school had to guarantee also a good secular education.
00:13:06 - About how she went to a Bais Yaakov school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and came home to teach in the Chabad school in Pittsburgh. About the reaction of her parents and the community to hearing that the Rebbe had succeeded in escaping from Europe. About news coverage of the arrival of the Rebbe in New York. (Audio drops out at about 19:00)
Interview with Mrs. Deren, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid in Pittsburgh. (Part 1) 2/21/1995
00:00:20 - Interview with Mrs. Deren. About her family history. About the suppression of religion in the USSR in the 1920s and about how her father was part of a group of young Hasidic men coalescing about the Lubavitcher Rebbe who was then in Rostov. A story about the Rebbe.
00:05:12 - About her parents' engagement in Russia in the 1920s and their decision to leave Russia.
00:08:00 - More about her father. About how her family relocated from Chicago to Pittsburgh, at the request of the Rebbe, to establish a school.
00:11:35 - More about her father's lack of fluency in English. About how her father tenaciously carried out the Rebbe's mission. About how the school had to guarantee also a good secular education.
00:13:06 - About how she went to a Bais Yaakov school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and came home to teach in the Chabad school in Pittsburgh. About the reaction of her parents and the community to hearing that the Rebbe had succeeded in escaping from Europe. About news coverage of the arrival of the Rebbe in New York. (Audio drops out at about 19:00)
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00:30:40 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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