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Menachem Daum (October 5, 1946 – January 7, 2024) was an American Orthodox Jewish documentary filmmaker. Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland who had survived the Holocaust. Being Jewish, many of his relatives perished in Nazi Germany's genocide.
Jan 19, 2024 · Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997 documentary that illuminated the cloistered world of America’s Hasidim, died on Jan. 7 in a hospital near his home in Borough...
Jan 10, 2024 · Acclaimed filmmaker Menachem Daum, whose documentary films challenged stereotypes that Haredi Jews and non-Jews had of each other, died Jan. 7 of cardiac disease. He was 77.
Jan 8, 2024 · We mourn the loss of the American documentary filmmaker Menachem Daum, much of whose work touched on Jewish history and heritage in Poland and often challenged preconceived notions and stereotypes. Daum passed away over the weekend, aged 77.
Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997 documentary that illuminated the cloistered world of America’s Hasidim, died on Jan. 7 in a hospital near his home in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He was 77. Menachem Daum was not Hasidic himself.
Menachem Daum was born on 5 October 1946 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. He was a producer and director, known for Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (2004), A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (1997) and The Last Witness.
Jan 10, 2024 · ( JTA) — Filmmaker Menachem Daum, a member of Brooklyn’s Gerer hasidic movement whose documentaries challenged preconceptions about haredi Jews and Polish gentiles, died Jan. 7. He was 77.
