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. The film follows Mazursky's journey to a small town in

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, to witness and participate in a three-day festival of over 25,000 singing, dancing, praying, and emotionally elevated Hasidic Jews. It was Mazursky's only documentary. ''Yippee'' made its North American debut at the 2007

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* 2006 films Documentary films about Jews and Judaism Hasidic Judaism in popular culture 2000s English-language films {{Hasidic-Judaism-stub