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How To Make A Yiddish Classic When You Don’t Know Any Yiddish

JL;DR SUMMARY Menashe, directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein, is a groundbreaking Yiddish-language film exploring the tension between faith and modernity within a Hasidic community in Boro Park, Brooklyn. 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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Yiddish LanguageNew York CityHasidic CommunityBoro ParkCinematographyMenashe LustigJoshua Z. WeinsteinYiddish FilmFaith And ModernityCustody And Tradition

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"the Boro Park section of Brooklyn."
New York, United States
"Joshua Z. Weinsteins film Menashe is now playing at the Angelika Theater in New York."
Crown Heights, New York, United States
"More recently he moved to Crown Heights"
Mill Basin, New York, United States
"when he visited and later worked at his grandfathers toy store (the iconic Reds Warehouse Outlet in Mill Basin and Canarsie)"
Canarsie, New York, United States
"when he visited and later worked at his grandfathers toy store (the iconic Reds Warehouse Outlet in Mill Basin and Canarsie)"
Monsey, New York, United States
"walking right into the scene as the cameras rolled to ask if he was going to Monsey"
Boro Park, New York, United States
"I spent much of my free time walking around those religious enclaves that only captivated him further with each exposure from Crown Heights to Boro Park and beyond, to communities in upstate New York."

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