Photographer Trains Wry Eye on Brooklyn’s Lubavitchers
In a bid to combat ‘fashionable’ anti-Semitism in France, photographer Sacha Goldberger created and captured humorous scenes of daily life as a Chasidic Jew in Crown Heights, while educating the viewers about Jews and Judaism.
From The Times of Israel:
A series of highly unusual photographs was recently on display at the town hall of Paris’s 4th arrondissement. The exhibit depicts Hasidic Jews — but not like we’ve ever seen them before.
This was precisely French photographer Sacha Goldberger‘s intention with the images, which he titled, “The 770: Lubavitchs of Brooklyn,” referencing the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Many professional photographers have staked themselves out on the streets of Brooklyn, surreptitiously capturing moments in the lives of Hasidic Jews are they go about their daily lives. On occasion for documentary purposes, some have even gained rare access into the homes and synagogues of the community.
Goldberger has uniquely partnered with Chabad-Lubavitch Jews themselves to produced stylized, ironic and self-deprecatingly humorous images that serve to both amuse and educate.
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Anonymous
I love them!!!
not b'kavoidik
not really in great taste
the photos of the Rebbe should not be used like this.
I can appreciate a sense of humor but this is in poor taste.
Agree
At best they are stupid.
Leo de Toot
Completely miss the excitement, exuberance, dirt, multi-racial/ethnic, modern versus old, etc. etc. aspects of Crown Heights. Also not such great photographs. Exploitative.
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please think before posting
some photos are so, so, so not respectful to the Rebbe, some not tznius and several just nothing to do with reality and whats up with jumping near a treife diner?
It’s an embarrassment that this was put up on public display in France
Zippora
Very artistic, creative and show an offbeat angle. Chill, guys. We’re all human!! Great stuff!!
rashabber
When will this show be exhibited in NYC?