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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America is 1997 American documentary film produced for PBS about Hasidic Judaism in America produced and directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky, written by Daum and Robert Seidman, and narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America: Directed by Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky. With Leonard Nimoy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zeldy Abromowitz, Yaffa Eliach. Hasidic Jews seem alien, and even hostile, to those outside their culture,which frequently includes other Jews.
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- Documentary
- Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
- 1997-11
A 90-minute film, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic...
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this groundbreaking documentary was among the first American films to offer a full, distinctive, inside look at the Hasidic Jewish communities that found their most vital enclaves in America after mass migrations post–World War II.
A LIFE APART aims to present many aspects of American Hasidic life on film, exploring underlying struggles such as tensions between modernity and traditionalism.
This is the first documentary to present an in-depth, historically accurate portrait of America's Hasidic community. With moving, beautifully photographed portraits of family and communal life, A LIFE APART illuminates the deep spiritual resonance of Judaism as practiced by Brooklyn's Hasidim.
Hasidic tales, intriguing and memorable doorways into a complex world of Hasidic thought, religious themes, and humor, are fruits of a long and continuing oral tradition.
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