Work

• Daum, Menachem
• Oren Rudavsky

• 1993-12-09

• 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. A Hanukkah celebration at a Chabad Jewish school in Moscow. (Part 1) 12/9/1993. 00:00:20 - Hanukkah assembly: continuation of children singing Hebrew songs: "Sivivon sov sov" (Spinning top) and "Am Yisroel Chai" (The people of Israel lives) and other songs. 00:03:33 - A small boy is lifted up on the stage and leads the other children in a chant wishing long life to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, their teacher and the King, the Messiah. More singing. Portrait of the Rebbe on the wall. Children dancing to Hava Nagila. 00:11:03 - (No audio) Hanukkah decorations. Portrait of Rebbe on wall. Hebrew banners with Russian translations. Menorah. Torah Ark curtain. 00:11:24 - Men in Rabbi Berel Lazar's office. An elderly man speaks with him in Yiddish. Door of the office with stickers proclaiming the Lubavitcher Rebbe the Messiah. A couple enters and speaks with the rabbi in Russian. The woman shows him documents in Hebrew and Russian in connection with an inquiry from Israel about whether someone is a Jew or not. 00:18:55 - Men and boys in a synagogue singing, with small Hanukkah menorahs. 00:29:54 - Audio only. Continuation of men singing. Children singing Hanukkah songs.

• Chabad Lubavitch (Organization)
• Hasidim
• Russia (Federation)--Moscow
• Jews, Russian
• Holidays
• Hanukkah--Customs and practices
• Rituals
• Orthodox Judaism
• Hasidism

• Russia (Federation)--Moscow

• Videotapes

• Russian
• Hebrew

• Daum, Menachem
• Oren Rudavsky

• A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

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• Moving Image

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