Work

• Daum, Menachem
• Oren Rudavsky

• 1993 -11

• 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. Preparations for the dedication of a new building for the Ger Yeshiva in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Hatzolah ambulance responds to a medical emergency. Audio of opening of opening of ceremony. (Part 2) November, 1993. 00:02:19 - Crowds around an ambulance outside new Ger yeshiva. Someone is loaded into the Hatzolah ambulance and it leaves. Crowds of young Hasidic men. Filmmaker asks young man who was in the ambulance but he won't say. Women and others watching from windows. 00:03:38 - (No audio) Hasidic men and boys arriving for an event at the new Ger yeshiva. Police put up crowd barriers. 00:03:47 - Crowds of Hasidic men and boys on bleachers and folding chairs outside the new Ger yeshiva (and in front of Preizler Hardware store and The Hat Rack), assembling for an event. Women and girls watch from balconies. Men stand and watch from roofs. Children and women on balconies and boys on street outside the new Ger yeshiva, assembled for an event. Other crowd scenes. Some boys wave and smile at the camera. 00:18:53 - (Audio only) Music signaling the beginning of ceremony outside the new Ger yeshiva. 00:23:33 - (Audio only) Cantor David Werdyger chants "El molai rakhamim," the prayer for the dead, for Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, at an event outside the new Ger yeshiva.

• New York (State)--New York--Borough Park
• Hasidim
• Yeshivas
• Hasidism
• Jews, American
• Orthodox Judaism
• Gur Hasidim

• New York (State)--New York--Borough Park
• 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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