Title: At home in Utopia
Description: Focuses on the United Workers Cooperative Colony, aka the Coops, the most grass-roots 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 stalwartly secular East European Jewish working class enclave, they were part of an international movement. This film bears witness to lives lived with courage across the barriers of race, nation, language, convention, and sometimes even common sense.
Subjects: Jewish communists, Cooperative Apartment houses, Jews, United Workers' Association (New York, N.Y.), Working class Jews, Clothing workers, Societies, History
Places: New York (State), New York