A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Menachem Daum
Pearl Gluck
Leonard Nimoy
Chips Gold
Sarah Jessica Parker
Yale Strom
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A documentary that chronicles the complexity of Hasidic life that begins and ends with the spectacle of a ritualized wedding. Those who adhere to and those who stray from the life offered by Hasidic Orthodoxy share their stories in this account of Jewish religious life in America.
Cast
Pearl Gluck
Leonard Nimoy
Chips Gold
Sarah Jessica Parker
Yale Strom
Arthur Hertzberg
Bobover Rebbe
Crew
Zeldy Abramowitz
Felix Andrew
Joe Arcidiacono
Paul Bang
Moishe Ben-yaish
Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz
Ismael Butera
Gautam Choudhury
Menachem Daum
Menachem Daum
Rifke Daum
Wayne De La Roche
Martin Dornbaum
Martin Dornbaum
Mark Dresser
Fred Ebb
Sari Fensterheim
Sari Fensterheim
Virginia Field
Professor David Fishman
Steve Frankel
Pearl Gluck
Henya Gottesman
Idy Grunbaum
Jon Gurrin
Sam Henriquez
Professor Arthur Hertzberg
Iriving Hertzberg
Immy Humes
Julia Ivanova
John Kander
Judy Karp
Nuta Kaufman
Malke Klein
Arnold Labaton
Brian Langman
Moishe Levertov
Eugene Marner
Jerome Mintz
Professor Halina Nelkin
Roberta Newman
Mark Peterson
Mathew Price
Jeff Pullman
David Pultz
Steven Robinson
Oren Rudavsky
Oren Rudavsky
Robert Sands
William Sarokin
Ruth Schell
Mayer Schiller
Robert Seidman
Jerri Shephard
Matthew Sigal
Barbara Sirota
Masha Soloviona
Norbert Stachel
Stuart Stanley
Reilly Steele
Yale Strom
Jane Tolmachyou
Rinato Tonelli
Cantor David Werduger
Cantor David Werdyger
James Williams
Moshe D Yarmish
Zmiros Yisrael
Tom Yore
Stephen Zelonka
Sergei Zerik
Melitzer Chassidic Zmiros
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States July 1997
Released in United States November 1997
Released in United States on Video October 1998
Shown at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival July 17 - August 4, 1997.
Telecast on PBS on August 25, 1998 following its theatrical release.
Broadcast in USA over PBS August 25, 1998.
Straight-to-video release.
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival July 17 - August 4, 1997.)
Released in United States July 1997 (Shown in New York City (Walter Reade) July 25-31, 1997.)
Released in United States on Video October 1998
Released in United States November 1997 (Shown in Los Angeles as part of the Laemmle Theatres Jewish Cinema Series November 21-27, 1997.)
