A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

Seven years in the making, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America explores the world of modern Hasidism. From mystical tales to mesmerizing music, rebbes to Holocaust survivors, A Life Apart reveals a remarkable culture, full of joy, pain and rich tradition, that few outsiders have seen and fewer yet can imagine.

Completed:

1997

Running Time:

95 minutes

Editor:

Ruth Schell

Director of Photography:

Oren Rudavsky

Music:

Yale Strom

A Life Apart: Hasidism in America aired nationally on PBS.
Produced by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky
Written by Menachem Daum and Robert Seidman
Executive Producer: Arnold Labaton

"Illuminating, revealing, extraordinary!"
- The New York Times

"I loved A Life Apart. It's a movie everyone should see."
- Tony Kushner, playwright, Angels in America

"Startlingly intimate!"
- New York Post

"Extraordinary and deeply moving - an irreplaceable historical document, as well as a powerful work of art."
- H.R. Moody, The Five Stages of the Soul

Price: $29.95

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