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Society: All there in black and white

06/28/2012 13:23 By BARRY DAVIS

The Israel Museum’s ‘A World Apart Next Door’ exhibition sheds light on some of the various courts within the cloistered hassidic world.

Photo by: Yuval Nadel

In a way, it’s strange to see an exhibition about Hassidism in the Israel Museum. Surely, if you want to get a glimpse of ultra-Orthodox Jewish life, all you have to do is take a stroll through Mea She’arim or Geula, a short bus journey or bike ride away. But, judging by the interest and responses of the members of last week’s press tour of the new exhibition about Hassidism, there is a great need to curate and house snippets of life from the other side of the religious fence. Indeed, the title of the show – “A World Apart Next Door” – spells out the “so near and yet so far” context. “It’s about something that’s actually in our midst, but it’s about something that not very many of us know very much about,” museum director James Snyder notes prior to the tour.

The collection was curated by Ester Muchawsky- Schnapper and designed by Chanan de Lange, and it was the former who led us through the esthetics and mysteries of a community that, unfortunately, seems to get press coverage for all the wrong reasons.

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Society: All there in black and white

The Israel Museum’s ‘A World Apart Next Door’ exhibition sheds light on some of the various courts within the cloistered hassidic world.

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