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A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement

JL;DR SUMMARY "Seed of Doubt" is a 20-minute Yiddish-language horror film set in an 18th-century Polish shtetl during the early days of the Hasidic movement, exploring themes of faith and existential uncertainty. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryFilmYiddishFaithHasidicLanguageFolkloreHorrorExistential UncertaintyPolish Shtetl

Places mentioned

shtetl, Mazovia, Poland
"The film, called Kerl fun sofek in Yiddish, is set in an 18th-century Polish shtetl during the beginnings of the Hasidic movement."
London, United Kingdom
"The shtetl-folk-horror film, as writer-director Daniel Daniel calls it, emerged from his own search for meaning growing up in a tight-knit Modern Orthodox community in London."
New York, United States
"Seed of Doubt will be playing in New York on March 5 as part of the Havurah Short Short Film Festival."
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"Rebecca Margolis is a Jewish studies professor at Monash University in Melbourne."

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