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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

But we don't think as much about what it was like for their children, who had the...

But we don't think as much about what it was like for their children, who had the opportunity to become more American, and yet they were still very much tied to their parents and to the culture that they had grown up in on the Lower East Side

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But we don't think as much
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about what it was like for their children,
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who had the opportunity to become more American,
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and yet they were still very much
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tied to their parents and to the culture
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that they had grown up in
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on the Lower East Side.
Duration
17 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:53:37
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
And so my first book, I mean, my dissertation - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:19
And so my first book, I mean, my dissertation
And then I realized, after I finished writing that, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
And then I realized, after I finished writing that,
Well, they almost all took place in delis. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Well, they almost all took place in delis.
There was something about the deli - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
There was something about the deli
And then I said to myself, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And then I said to myself,
And what was their function - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And what was their function
The delicatessen, and the food that was served - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
The delicatessen, and the food that was served
But I don't think most people, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
But I don't think most people,
: It's not the first thing - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
: It's not the first thing
Right? People want to eat a pastrami sandwich. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Right? People want to eat a pastrami sandwich.
And, you know what's interesting about both of those, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And, you know what's interesting about both of those,
I mean, the apple, obviously, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
I mean, the apple, obviously,
And the overstuffed, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And the overstuffed,
There is a kind of very crude - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
There is a kind of very crude
This was the time - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
This was the time
They're moving uptown to Harlem, which was - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
They're moving uptown to Harlem, which was
And they are beginning somewhat to move more - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And they are beginning somewhat to move more
It's still a very, very anti-Semitic culture - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
It's still a very, very anti-Semitic culture
1920s is probably the most anti-Semitic - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
1920s is probably the most anti-Semitic
You have the rise of the KKK, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
You have the rise of the KKK,