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A lost film about Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side returns to the big screen in NYC

JL;DR SUMMARY Breaking Home Ties, a silent film from 1922 about Russian Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, has been rediscovered and restored for the New York Jewish Film Festival. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish RepresentationJewish ImmigrantsLower East SideNew York Jewish Film FestivalSilent FilmBreaking Home TiesFilm RestorationImmigrant Life1920s Cinema

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"Mr. Bergmann, the protagonists father (far left) struggles as an immigrant street vendor after leaving Russia for New York City."
Berlin, Germany
"Breaking Home Ties vanished into obscurity. That is, until it was discovered in a film archive in Berlin in 1984."
St. Petersberg, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
"David parlays his good education in St. Petersberg into a successful career as a lawyer in the New World."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"Joe Eckhardt, a history professor at Montgomery County Community College outside Philadelphia and an expert on Betzwood Studio in Valley Forge, where the film was shot."

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