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1. Frieda Vizel giving a tour of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn UPSOUND: “We are trying to be the least obnoxious tourists who just come to objectify.”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Frieda Vizel, Jewish Cultural Tour Guide:
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“I give tours of the Hasidic community that I hope are informative, balanced, and humanizing, and give a little bit of a sense of New York City as a city of communities.”
3. An Orthodox Jewish woman with children crossing a street as a young girl looks at the passing tour
4. Tour in front of a Jewish school
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Frieda Vizel, Jewish Cultural Tour Guide:
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“I was Hasidic for the first 25 years of my life, and I left as a young mother with my son. I would say I left because I couldn’t find my place here. It was not making sense for me anymore to live by the many expectations of this world. But at the same time, it was a little bit of an all or nothing. You either are in or out, and I didn’t want to be in or out. I wanted to stay attached in ways that were meaningful because this was like my entire formative life.”
6. People on the street of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Orthodox and non-orthodox
7. An Orthodox Jewish man
8. Orthodox community members on the street of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9. Pan from sign on light pole to the tour group crossing the street
10. Vizel holding a newspaper as the tour looks on UPSOUND: “What’s unique about how this news is reported? No photographs. There’s very limited use of photographs.”
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Frieda Vizel, Jewish Cultural Tour Guide:
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“Tours became a way for me to stay connected, that felt authentic, and also for me to have a voice to articulate things that when I was Hasidic, I was unable to articulate.”
12. Vizel’s tour passing an Orthodox Jewish market
13. Tour stopping by a bagal shop UPSOUND: “So, we’re going to have something called crunchy fried lox.”
14. Sign in a bagel shop
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Frieda Vizel, Jewish Cultural Tour Guide:
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“On the tour, people will see a very robust kind of cultural ecosystem that allows for this Hasidic population to transplant and preserve a way of life that was almost annihilated in the Holocaust.”
16. Pan from Orthodox toys to the tour
17. An Orthodox dress up kit for kids
18. Pan from DVD’s to Vizel showing off kosher MP3 players in a toy store UPSOUND: “ SO, you see the USB sticks or DVD’s. Or these whichj are kosher MP3 players.”
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Menashe Gottlieb, 3rd generation owner, Gottlieb’s Restaurant:
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“She comes in and she brings in people from all over the world. And it brings us a lot of recognition to the entire world.”
20. Vizel leading tour UPSOUND: “How they raise very large families…”
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie Schwartz, Sydney, Australia:
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“I just thought it would be an interesting opportunity to explore something with somebody who is as knowledgeable as she has been. And as somebody who came from this place and came from this space.”
22. Pan from Gottlieb’s Restaurant sign to tour UPSOUND: ”So this is our final stop. Anyone eaten here before?”
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeynep Gencoglu, Brooklyn resident:
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24. Tour walking into Gottlieb’s Restaurant
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Frieda Vizel, Jewish Cultural Tour Guide:
26. Tour group walking into a bakery
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