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Makolet : a middle eastern grocery in Brooklyn / by Ilana Goldberg.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Goldberg, Ilana, author.
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grocery trade--New York (State)--New York.
- Grocery trade.
- Jews, Syrian--New York (State)--New York.
- Jews, Syrian.
- Kosher food industry--New York (State)--New York.
- Kosher food industry.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2000.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- This upbeat documentary depicts the social space of a kosher Middle Eastern grocery store in the traditionally Sephardic section of Brooklyn. Serving the local Syrian Jewish clientele, it has now also become a kind of social headquarters for expatriate Israelis as well as other Middle Eastern customers. Impromptu interviews with customers reveal their nostalgia for other places and times, as well as their ambivalence about life in America. The vividly polyglot customers -- Hebrew, English, Syrian and Egyptian Arabic as well as snippets of other languages are heard -- paint a portrait of the complexities of multicultural life in a diaspora setting and the compromises necessary to forging a new identity in a new place. Of interest to classes in anthropology, Middle East and Jewish studies.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- OCLC:
- 747797041
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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