Rating  - My DVD Purchase
The DVD is excellent and the price was great. The seller shipped it out rapidly.
Rating  - Coming to America
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Narrated by Liev Schrieber, this 6-hour/3-part PBS documentary miniseries from filmmaker David Grubin traces over 350 years of Jewish American history, from the arrival of the first Jews in New Amsterdam in 1654 up to the present day.
It's the story of a tiny minority struggling to make its way into the American mainstream while, at the same time, trying to maintain a sense of their own identity as Jews.
Among some of the more interesting events dealt with are the Jews participation in the Civil War (on both sides of the conflict), the Jewish contribution to the winning of the West and, of course, the Holocaust.
There are also extended sections on the Yiddish Theatre, Irving Berlin, baseball player Hank Greenberg, Gertrude Berg, Bess Myerson, the Leo Franks case, the Ethel & Julius Rosenberg case and the Jews involvement with the Civil Rights Movement.
Whether you are Jewish or gentile, this is a series that is well worth your time.
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Rating - Fantastic Documentary
I loved it. One of the best documentarys I've seen. Educational, informational and insightful. It's a keeper.
Rating - Unexplainable omission
This is a good doc about Jewish Americans and how they emigrated to the United States. It was quite interesting to discover that the nursing profession was invented by a Jewish woman in New York. There are very fascinating facts throught this piece. There are many contributons discussed including commentary from Michael Tilson Thomas on his grandfather's contribution to early Yiddish theatre as well as Irving Berlin's impact on the music world. However, good this may be I am baffled at the omission of a great American Jewish composer who is not mentioned in this film or the comapnion book: George Gerswhin. His contribution is unparraled and there is not one word about him. By no means is this a comprehensive history. And there is a key point that Younger Jews today who have money and did not grow up in poverty or victims of Anti-Semitism will probably be out of touch with the early Jewsih experience and not realte to this at all. As is the case with many younger generations who don't seem to appreciate the roads that are paved a little further for them so that they may struggle less than those before them. Still overall an interesting and importatn look into Jewish historylook
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