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Sep 9, 2023 · “Until suddenly I stopped.” That kind of identity switch, from haredi to secular and then back to haredi, is very rare. Yet some would argue that through his work, Indursky never strayed...
- ‘The Cantor and The Sea’
- ‘Shtisel’
- ‘Autonomies’
- ‘Fill The Void’
After the documentary I’d suggest turning to the fictional “The Cantor and the Sea.”It’s a short film, some 25 minutes-long, about an unmarried, middle-aged cantor who arrives, along with his mother, at a seaside community to lead the High Holiday prayers. Gedalia’s mother is neat and overbearing. Her late husband, the cantor’s father, never suffer...
From there go to “Shtisel,” available on Netflix. It’s the great cinematic novel of the haredi world. Shulem, the newly widowed patriarch, is played with a Tony-Soprano-like magnetism by Dovel’e Glickman; his sons and daughters, brother and mother, neighbors and suitors and neighborhood matchmakers all swirl around in fits of ineptitude and angst, ...
Finally, there’s “Autonomies,” a six-part series that imagines a future in which a revolt over a draft law led to a separation between the state of Tel Aviv and the religious autonomous region of Jerusalem. The cold peace between the two sides is ruptured when the daughter of the chief rabbi — brilliantly played by Shuli Rand, the star of “Ushpizin...
If after all this you still want more and are looking for a woman’s perspective, finish it all off with the feature film “Fill the Void,” written and directed by American-born Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein. The New York Times’ then co-chief film critic, A.O. Scott, called the film“remarkable” and described it is as laced with “unfailing sensitiv...
Apr 16, 2019 · The authenticity of the two-season, 24-episode series stems from the memories of Yehonatan Indursky. “Shtisel’s” co-creator was raised in an ultra-Orthodox family and, before becoming a...
Apr 23, 2021 · What distinguishes Shtisel from any other standard television drama is that it invites viewers into the insular Haredi world. It’s been a while since we last caught up with the beloved Shtisel family, but they’re finally back!
Apr 16, 2021 · The third season of Shtisel, the Israeli television series about a Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jerusalem family, recently debuted on Netflix. Created by Yehonatan Indursky and Ori Elon, both from...
Apr 14, 2019 · The show, which was created by two men with intimate knowledge of the Haredi community, mines drama from the restrictions of ultra-Orthodox life but doesn’t suggest that its central characters...
Mar 25, 2021 · It’s a season that Elon and Indursky, who both come from religious backgrounds — Indursky was raised in an ultra-Orthodox home before leaving the fold; Elon grew up modern Orthodox — never...
