My Encounter Encounters London
LONDON, England [CHI] — As part of the ongoing oral history project documenting the story of the Rebbe’s life, Jewish Educational Media recently dispatched a team to London, England.
The team, with extensive experience in collecting oral histories, was led by My Encounter with the Rebbe producer, Rabbi Yechiel Cagen and Shmulie Shmotkin. Across seven days of testimony, they documented the Rebbe’s unique relationship with a number of individuals from England’s capital. They were joined by a camera crew led by Alan Buckley, an expert videographer with extensive experience filming interviews and documentary features for the BBC and other prestigious news outlets.
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By examining their unique relationships with the Rebbe, the interviewees shed unprecedented light on a host of topics, ranging from current affairs and public policy, to the Rebbe’s concern for the welfare of individual families, and the very intricate details of their business affairs. The interviewees each shared their experiences and interactions with the Rebbe and Lubavitch. In addition, the London community enjoys a number of personalities who were among the close circle of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, of righteous memory. The individuals shared little-known insights into the Rebbetzin’s caring personality, her regal manner, and her immeasurable contribution to the Rebbe’s efforts and activities.
In all, the team filmed over 30 hours of interviews. Transcriptions of the interviews, which are now under way, are estimated to amount in over 600 pages of typed testimony, which will be added to the thousands of pages already collected. The My Encounter team hopes to be able to return to the UK in the future, in order to collect the experiences of many more of the city’s inhabitants who had interactions with the Rebbe.
A special thanks to Aaron Friedman and to Yaakov and to Aryela Shapiro for making this trip possible by contributing principal funding toward the trip, and to the Weinbaum Family for their warm hospitality in hosting the team. JEM would also like to thank the Cousin family and the Sudak family for their contributions. All of Klal Yisroel, who will, no-doubt, benefit from this testimony in the months and years to come is in their debt.
your proud eineklach
go zaidy cousin!!!!
yankel
This should be a great series! I know most of them, Cant wait. BTW Yechiel: this is an explanation for you missing the last few ….
think!
In my opinion, this work that JEM is doing is so important. You guys should be making such a trip every week! Every month, unfortunately, more people go to the grave, taking with them bits and pieces of the story of the Rebbe’s life.
proud grand-daughter
yay bubby and zeidy lew!!!!!
shmuel
the costs for this must be astronomical. how can we contribute?
think again
Please contact Yechiel Cagen at ycagen@jemedia.org.
An admirer
Wow nice to see the Emiser pple of london who have so much to offer. Shkoach Rabbi & Mrs Lew – a staunch admirer.
yossi
go cane go
school days our now over
to rabbi cousin
YOUR EINKLACH
GO ZAIDY COUSIN!!!