A life apart : Hasidism in America / a film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky ; produced and directed by Menachem Daum and Orem Rudavsky ; written by Menachem Daum, Robert Seidman.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0640

Overview

Summary: Relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States.
Variant Title: Hasidism in America
Format: Video
Published: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, [1997]
©1997
Locale: United States
New York (State)
New York
New York (N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors/Editors: Daum, Menachem.
Rudavsky, Oren.
Seidman, Robert.
Nimoy, Leonard.
Parker, Sarah Jessica.
First Run/Icarus Films.
Notes: Originally produced for television in 1997.

Includes PBS interview with directors, directors' commentary track, biographies.

Scriptwriter: Menachem Daum, Robert Seidman.

Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker.

DVD.

Subjects: Hasidism--United States. Hasidim--United States. Hasidim--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs. Hasidism--New York (State)--New York. Holocaust survivors--New York (State)--New York. New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs. Documentary films. Video recordings.

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