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Life Apart: Hasidism in America, A

A Film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky

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Description

Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker

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 the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict 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.



What the Critics are Saying

" Startlingly intimate!" -New York Post

"Beautiful, mysterious and mesmerizing." -San Francisco Bay Guardian


Links

Read FRF's interview with co-director Oren Rudavsky.


Features and Specifications

Bonus materials:
  • PBS Interview with Directors
  • Directors' Commentary Track
  • Filmmaker Biographies
  • Interactive Menus
  • Scene Access

Format: DVD
Release Year:1997
Running Time: 95 minutes
Color: Color
Language: English

Also available in VHS format. Click here


  

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