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.

Crown Heights street scenes. Grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Cambria Heights, Queens.
00:00:00 - (No audio) Crown Heights street scenes: African-Americans and Hasidim. Entrance to Kingston Avenue subway station.

00:04:15 - (No audio) Grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Women and filmmaker Menachem Daum praying at the grave. Woman tears up note to add to others at the grave.

Grave of Lubavitcher Rebbe

Hasidism, Hasidim, Orthodox Judaism, Jews, American, New York (State)--New York--Cambria Heights, New York (State)--New York--Crown Heights, Chabad Lubavitch (Organization), Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 1924-2014 Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 1902-1994, Jewish cemeteries, Judaism—Rituals

00:07:53 (HH:MM:SS)

English

1997

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