A Storm Of Strangers

Duration: 27

Genre: Educational

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Producers, Saul Rubin and Elaine Attias, director, Chris Jenkyns; Edmund O'Brien speaks for Dennis Mulligan, who fled the famine-ravaged Ireland of 1955, and whose poetic narrative personalizes the engravings and photos which recreate the role of the Irish in building the cities and canals, the railroads and the politics of America, An old Jew reminisces over turn-of-the century photographs of lower east-side ghettos of Manhattan. He tells how the Jews came from the ghettos of Europe, settled in the lower east-side ghettos and clawed their way out.

Complete Record: Producers, Saul Rubin and Elaine Attias, director, Chris Jenkyns; Edmund O'Brien speaks for Dennis Mulligan, who fled the famine-ravaged Ireland of 1955, and whose poetic narrative personalizes the engravings and photos which recreate the role of the Irish in building the cities and canals, the railroads and the politics of America, An old Jew reminisces over turn-of-the century photographs of lower east-side ghettos of Manhattan. He tells how the Jews came from the ghettos of Europe, settled in the lower east-side ghettos and clawed their way out.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.