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From: Jchrishorak@aol.com
List Editor: Ken Nolley <knolley@willamette.edu>
Editor's Subject: Re: Query: exile and assimilation
Author's Subject: Re: Query: exile and assimilation
Date Written: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:24:18 -0800
Date Posted: Wed, 09 Jan 2001 13:24:18 -0500

There are numerous films in the silent period about Jewish assimilation, in
particular the conflict between immigrant parents and americanized children:

HUMORESQUE (1925)
HIS PEOPLE (1925) w/ Joseph Schildkraut
COHENS AND THE KELLYS (1926)
EAST SIDE SADIE (1929)
ROSE OF THE TENNEMENTS (1926)
SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY (1926)



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