Discover The Great Wave of Jewish immigration through movies like An American Tail, Fiddler on the Roof, An American Pickle, Hester Street, Godfather II, The Immigrant, Once Upon A Time In America, The original Jazz Singer, Brooklyn, and Hitch!
Explore why the Jews left the Russian Empire, the experience of going through Ellis Island, the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty, the dark side of the Ellis Island Experience, and what life was actually like on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the beginning of the 1900s.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Jewish Immigration to America
3:28 Pogroms
6:30 The Ellis Island Experience
12:36 The Other Side
16:20 Lower East Side
22:11 Legacy
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