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(Jewish Group) Film series opens with Jewish immigration experience
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)he Broward County Main Library will cover the Jewish immigration experience when it kicks off a film discussion series.
The county's main library, 100 S Andrews Ave. in Fort Lauderdale, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor to host "Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience," which uses documentary films and texts to engage the public in a study of the history of America's immigration experience.
The library is one of 32 sites nationwide selected to host this series, a project of City Lore in collaboration with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the International Coalition of the Sites of Conscience. The series consists of six programs, each built around a different facet of the immigration experience that will feature either a complete documentary film or excerpts from longer documentaries to provide the basis for a scholar-led discussion. Stephen Engle, a history professor at Florida Atlantic University, will lead the discussions.
The series' opening program, "The Century of Immigration: 1820-1924," takes place on July 31 from 6-7:30 p.m. It will include a screening of "A World of Their Own," the second episode of the Public Broadcasting Service series, "The Jewish Americans," directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin.
"The Jewish Americans" explores in depth the story of one of the groups that made up the great wave of immigration as more than two million Jews fleeing poverty and oppression in Eastern Europe flooded into the United States. These Jewish immigrants were drawn by the promise of religious freedom and economic opportunity. Many migrated across the U.S., but the majority created a new life in Manhattan's poverty-stricken Lower East Side. Struggling to adapt their traditions to their new life, they were aided by new ethnic institutions such as The Forward, a newspaper which devoted columns to teaching newcomers0 in often unintentionally humorous ways.
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