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Jewish American

• 1974 ----- b & w ----- 26 min ----- 16mm
• Narrator Herschel Bernardi invites us for "a glass tea" and so begins a moving narrative of the Jewish experience in America. In striking photographs of the period the film shows the rich texture of life on Hester Street, the persecutions fled and the sufferings encountered. Presents, though the dreams and recollections of a humble immigrant family, in the ethnic idiom of the time, the story of how the Jewish East Side "deliberately abolished itself" through hard work, union organizations and the burning desire "to be American."
• Topics: (Community Life, History: American, Jewish Studies)

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