Work

• Daum, Menachem
• Oren Rudavsky

• Brooklyn College Library

• 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. Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz's class at Yeshiva Yagdil Torah. A lesson on Passover. (Part 2) Interview with wig stylist. (Part 1) Terms you may encounter: Chometz: Leavened foods forbidden on Passover. Sheitl: Wig worn by married ultra-Orthodox women to cover their hair. 00:00:01 - Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz teaches his class at Yeshiva Yagdil Torah about preparations for Passover and how they must check their homes for chometz, even between the pages of books. They all check the supply closet for chometz. Boys take turns holding the lighted candle that is part of the ritual of checking for chometz. (Yiddish with a little English) 00:17:31 - Nomi refurbishing sheitls (wig) in a kitchen as a toddler in highchair looks on. She explains what she is doing and that married women must cover their natural hair. Some women wear wigs like she does. Nomi is styling the sheitl for Chayele, who says she has sheitls in a variety of styles. She's lucky and can afford good wigs; others can't. (Nomi and Chayele are Litvish/yeshivish ultra-Orthodox Jews and not Hasidim.)

• Hasidim
• Yeshivas
• Modesty--Religious aspects—Judaism
• Jewish religious education--Teaching methods
• Hasidism
• Jews, American
• Gur Hasidim
• Orthodox Judaism

• New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn

• Videotapes

• English
• Yiddish

• Daum, Menachem
• Oren Rudavsky

• A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

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