Canadian sociologist and filmmaker Coleman Romalis's film sets out to find the public figure that was Emma Goldman. In the process, he uncovers a much more complicated woman, whose intimate friendships and numerous lovers extended far beyond the political realm. Yet, Emma's politics informed every aspect of her personal life. The Jewish Anarchists, paints a dramatic, inspiring and very humorous portrait of immigrant life in the US as seen through the eyes of the sweatshop workers who made up the Jewish Anarchist movement. With numerous interviews, archival photos, newsreel footage, Yiddish songs and poems and classic motion pictures, directors Fischler and Sucher richly recreate the spirit of the times in which organizers, like Emma Goldman, extolled workers to take to the streets and the picket lines.
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No reservations or tickets needed. With the irony and hilarity of a personal essay, Filmmaker Berliner dives headfirst into the American name pool in search of the treasures and dangers hidden inside his name. Along the way, he confronts his parents about the origins of his name, visits the Jim Smith Society, the national Linda Convention, Holocaust name memorials, the streets of New York, the Vietnam Memorial and the AIDS quilt. A discussion and reception will follow. Volunteers are needed at both shows to work the box office and door.