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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
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In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of Yiddish, their distinctive clothes and their strick observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious: family, community and a life of meaning.
"**** Startlingly intimate!" - New York Post
"Beautiful, mysterious and mesmerizing" - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Release Date: 1997
Director: Menachem Daum & Oren Rudavsky
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Gives an inside view to a closed society., October 21, 2006
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Reviewer: Ikagan from Oceanside, NY
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Pros:
An in depth look into the Hassidic community.
Cons:
Not for everyone.
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Takes you inside of a community that does not let outsiders in. You see them on the streets but you know nothing of their ways until you see this film.
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