The first generation of settlers, generally thought to be those that arrived before 1627, called themselves the "Old Comers" or "Planters".
After the 2005 withdrawal, Mr. Zar said, his generation of settlers started living increasingly by the motto "God is king".
The founders' generation of settlers grew up in Israel proper; their children and grandchildren have grown up in the settlements, bubble-like communities of like-minded people.
Not only had they become, over the years, less pious than the first generation of settlers; they had also failed to convert the Indians to Christianity.
Its spiritual leader, Rabbi Israel Einhorn, said that when he arrived here about 20 years ago, the generation of settlers and the synagogue's membership were dwindling.
The film, bearing the subtitle "A New-England Folktale," is set around 1630, meaning that William and Katherine, whose heavy accents betray their roots in the North of England, belong to the early generation of settlers.
The zeal of the younger generation of settlers, born and reared in conflict, was on display several miles west of here today, where about 1,000 Jewish youths fought soldiers and police officers who came to evict them from an illegal settlement outpost known as Gilad Farm -- one of scores of encampments built in recent years on West Bank hills.
Here a new generation of settlers has grown up with the bridge, and they cherish it as the highlight of their horizon and as their link to the mammoth mosaic that is Brooklyn and to the waterfront towers of Manhattan, which Truman Capote once described as a "diamond iceberg".
The filmmaker used period-appropriate language and worked to recreate the material reality that confronted the first generation of settlers.
Among them are many who see the world in different terms than their parents ever did, and many who lack the stern intractability of the first generation of settlers they are slowly, surely replacing.
