A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (1997)
96 min
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 God. Integrating critical and analytical scholarship with a portrait of the daily life, beliefs, and history of contemporary Hasidic Jews in New York City, the film focuses on the conflicts, burdens, and rewards of the Hasidic way of life.
- Release date
- August 25, 1998
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Yale Strom
Cast
- Leonard Nimoy as Self - Narrator
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Narrator
- Zeldy Abromowitz as Self
- Yaffa Eliach as Self
- Chips Gold as Self
- Esther Gold as Self
- Jack Gold as Self
- Samuel Heilman as Self
- Arthur Hertzberg as Self
- Ben Zion Horowitz as Self
Crew
- Menachem Daum · Director
- Oren Rudavsky · Director
- Menachem Daum · Writer
- Robert Seidman · Writer
- Menachem Daum · Producer
- Oren Rudavsky · Producer
- Yale Strom · Composer
- Oren Rudavsky · Cinematographer
- Ruth Schell · Editor