A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

113 minutes

Source: First Run Features

A Life Apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States with particular emphasis on New York City. Seven years in the making, this film takes the viewer into the depths of Hasidism's sometimes harsh, and often beautiful, world. From mystical tales to mesmerizing music, and from Rebbes to Holocaust survivors, it reveals an insular world few outsiders have seen.