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The Center for Adult Jewish Learning
presents:
The Jewish Americans
This three-episode series will be shown at
5:00 PM, as follows:
January 22 - Episode 1: They Came to Stay/A World of
Their Own
February 19 - Episode 2: The Best of Times, the Worst
of Times
March - Episode 3: Home (date to be announced)
THE JEWISH AMERICANS is a
three-part documentary that explores 350 years of Jewish
American history. Written and directed by award winning
filmmaker David Grubin, THE JEWISH AMERICANS is a journey
through time, from the first settlement in 1654 to the
present. It is about the struggle of a tiny minority who
make their way into the American mainstream while, at the
same time, maintaining a sense of their own identity as
Jews. Focusing on the tension between identity and
assimilation, THE JEWISH AMERICANS is quintessentially an
American story, which other minority groups will find
surprisingly familiar. Narrated by actor Liev Schreiber,
this landmark series features Jewish Americans who have made
significant contributions to American life, from Louis D.
Brandeis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Henry Morgenthau, Hank
Greenberg, Betty Friedan, Molly Goldberg, Carl Reiner, Sid
Caesar, and Tony Kushner. However this story is also about
Jewish American tailors and shopkeepers, soldiers and
bankers, peddlers and merchants, labor organizers and civil
rights activists, all of whom also helped shape the American
landscape. |