Work

• Daum, Menachem
• Oren Rudavsky

• 1993-11-28

• 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. Morning prayer at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the headquarters of Lubavitcher (Chabad) Hasidism. Rabbi Berel Lazar plans for a live public Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony in Moscow. The Lazar family at home. (Part 2) 11/28/1993. 00:00:26 - (Partial audio) Morning prayers at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights: Rabbi Berl Lazar and other Lubavitcher Hasidim wearing talesim (prayer shawls) and tefillin (Leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer) praying. Clock with "Moshiach" (Messiah) painted on it. Sign in Hebrew forbidding talking during prayer or during reading of the Torah. Large banner in Hebrew and English proclaiming Lubavitcher Rebbe as the Messiah. 00:04:02 - (Partial audio) More footage of morning prayer at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. "Messiah Now," Hebrew book with picture of Lubavitcher Rebbe on the cover. Children who have accompanied their fathers. Close-up of tefillin. 00:07:37 - Rabbi Berl Lazar in conversation at 770 Eastern Parkway as he puts away his tefillin and then takes them out again and puts them on. Close-up of his tallis pouch: (in Hebrew) "Sh. D. P. Lazar." Lazar in conversation with a man, in Yiddish. 00:11:43 - Berl Lazar leaving 770 Eastern Parkway on a rainy day and then reentering the building. 00:13:15 - A monitor with footage of a Hannukah candle-lighting. Berl Lazar talking in English with a young man about preparations by Chabad to film a public candle-lighting ceremony in Moscow. 00:17:12 - (Partial audio with some audio from previous segment continuing) A car in Crown Heights with a sign: "Moshiach Is On The Way!" A funeral: men walk behind a hearse near 770 Eastern Parkway. 00:22:09 - Chanie Lazar feeding her children and coaching them to say the blessing for beginning a meal. Her husband, Berel, enters the kitchen. The oldest girl greets him and tells him they're eating kasha. 00:25:36 - Audio Only. Wild sound.

• Chabad Lubavitch (Organization)
• New York (State)--New York--Crown Heights
• Jewish families--Religious life
• Hasidim
• Hasidism
• Jews, American
• Orthodox Judaism

• New York (State)--New York--Crown Heights
• 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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