Film Screening: ‘A Life Apart: Hasidism in America’
Tuesday, January 27, 5:30 – 8 p.m.
The Center for Jewish Studies presents a retrospective of Menachem Daum’s compelling and challenging films. Through his work, the American Orthodox Jewish documentary filmmaker (1946 – 2024) strove to find common ground between Jews and non-Jews, Orthodox Jews and secular Jews, Polish Catholics and Polish Jews, and Palestinians and Holocaust survivors.
The series begins with A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, the first in-depth, documentary portrait of the daily life, beliefs, and history of contemporary Hasidic Jews in New York City.
Ayala Fader, PhD, professor of anthropology; Oren Rudavsky, co-director and producer of A Life Apart; Marty Dornbaum, producer of A Life Apart; and Rifke Daum, Menachem Daum’s wife, will take part in a post-screening discussion.
The remaining films in the series include Hiding and Seeking on Feb. 3, The Ruins of Lifta on Feb. 9, and Memory Keepers on Feb. 17.
