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. Girls in a Ger school for girls learning how to bake challah. (Part 3) Interview with the mother of Mayer Schiller, who became a Skverer Hasid. (Part 1) 00:00:06 - Girls making challah in a Ger school for girls. Girls at desks singing. (Yiddish) 00:05:16 - (Partial audio) Hebrew sign on wall: the creation of the world, day by day. Girls leave the classroom and watch challah being put in the oven. After the challahs are baked, they are distributed to the girls. (Yiddish/English) 00:14:33 - Interview with Mayer Schiller's mother: About Mayer Schiller's childhood. About his first encounter with Hasidism in New Square. 00:17:15 - About his first encounter with Skverer Hasidism in New Square, his turn to Orthodoxy, and his decision to go to yeshiva and his preparations to attend the Samson Raphael Hirsch yeshiva. About her reaction to these changes in her son. 00:20:32 - About how she believed her children should choose their own paths. About whether she thinks her son gave up anything when he chose Hasidism.

• Hasidim
• Jewish religious education--Teaching methods
• Hasidism
• Beth Jacob Schools
• Skvira Hasidim
• Jewish religious education of women
• 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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• Moving Image

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