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The life of the Shtisel family, a haredi family in Jerusalem.
January 28, 1927 in Romania
15 April 1958, Tel Aviv, Israel
24 November 1947, Baghdad, Iraq
February 05, 2019
It's really great: charming, funny, sad and brilliantly acted. But it's also unusual and fascinating.
April 19, 2019
The writing, the acting, the dilemma facing all the characters are so familiar and real as to transcend cultural or religious barriers.
July 06, 2020
Shtisel is refreshingly nonjudgmental, and that may be its best quality. Rather than emphasizing the otherness of the Haredi people we meet, the show brings out their humanness, sometimes with comic touches.
April 29, 2019
The power of "Shtisel" is in demystifying religious orthodoxy as we follow the lives of Shulem Shtisel (Doval'e Glickman), a bearded, pious yeshiva teacher, and his artistic, disappointing and unwed son, Akiva.

