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Aug 25, 1998 · A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic migration after World War II, Hasidism found it's most vital center in America. Both challenging and embracing American values, Hasidim seek those things which many Americans find most precious: family, community, and a close relationship to ...
Jul 17, 2001 · In New York City, the Hasidim are a common sight, but their way of life remains a mystery to those outside their community. With their use of Yiddish, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance of Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered. Amazon.com: A Life Apart - Hasidism in America : Leonard Nimoy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky: Movies & TV
A LIFE APART is a film about a small and distinctive minority, but the issues it raises are universal and of significant interest to a broad national audience. A LIFE APART is first of all a film ...
Seven years in the making, this extraordinarily intimate film takes us into the mysterious and joyous world of the Hasidic Jews, revealing a place few outsiders have seen and fewer yet could imagine.
The Hasidic movement started in 18th-century Europe, stressing joy and ecstatic faith, in opposition to the orthodoxy of the time. This is the first documentary to present an in-depth, historically accurate portrait of America's Hasidic community. With moving, beautifully photographed portraits of family and communal life, A LIFE APART illuminates the deep spiritual resonance of Judaism as ...
By JANET MASLIN. he documentary "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America" begins and ends with the complex spectacle of a big, ritualized wedding within the world of Hasidic Jews. It's a tribute to the film's illuminating powers that this ceremony is liable to seem quite different by the end of 96 minutes than it does at first.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this groundbreaking documentary was among the first American films to offer a full, distinctive, inside look at the Hasidic Jewish communities that found their most vital enclaves in America after mass migrations post–World War II.
