An old Jew reminisces over turn-of-the-century photographs of the lower east-side ghettos of Manhattan taken by Jacob Riis and others. He tells how the Jews came from the ghettos of Europe, settled in the lower east-side ghettos, and clawed their way out.
"An old Jew reminisces over turn-of-the-century photographs of the lower east-side ghettos of Manhattan taken by Jacob Riis and others. He tells how the Jews came from the ghettos of Europe, settled in the lower east-side ghettos, and clawed their way out."@en
"Archives photographs illustrate an old man's memories of the Jewish immigrant community on New York's East Side during the early 1900's. Herschel Bernardi, as narrator, warmly recalls his first impressions of New York City; tenement life, the factories and workshops, and the fierce determination with which the immigrants worked to free their children from the ghetto. concludes with scenes of the new immigrants of the Lower East Side, the Porto Ricans and Blacks who have even greater obstacles to surmount."@en
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