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Michal Goldman: At Home in Utopia, a new film on the Jewish immigrant Communist Tradition

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2009-04-27 Michal Goldman IVAW

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for web flyer.jpgAt Home in Utopia is a film about immigrants. It's a film about Jews. And it's a film about Communists. The latest film from established documentarian Michal Goldman focuses on the United Workers Cooperative Colony - aka the Coops - the most grassroots and member-driven of the Jewish labor housing cooperatives, where many of the residents were Communists or sympathetic to the communist movement. Beginning as a staunchly secular Eastern European Jewish working class enclave, they opted to bring their passion for racial justice home in the 1930's by racially integrating their own cooperative house, with unexpected consequences. Michal talks with host Eric Mann about this tale of struggle for equity and justice across two generations, the rise and fall of one community from the 1920s into the 1950s, paying close attention to the passions that bound them together and those that tore them apart. Michal Goldman's previous films include A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden, Umm Kulthum--A Voice Like Egypt, and Epiphany in Progress. Michal's film Tiger by the Tail about the campaign to keep open General Motors plant in Van Nuys, CA was written and co-produced by Eric Mann. 

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