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Film Screening "Deli Man" The History of The Jewish Delicatessen in America |
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at Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Long Island New York |
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October 25, 2015 |
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2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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| Admission: | $18.00 in advance; $20.00 at the door. |
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Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County |
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Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road |
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Glen Cove, NY 11542 |
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Film Screening "Deli Man" The History of The Jewish Delicatessen in America at Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove, Nassau County, Long Island New York.
HMTC presents a screening of the documentary film, "Deli Man," about the history of the Jewish Delicatessen in America. There will be a discussion following the film with Erik Greenberg Anjou, director/producer of "Deli Man" and Ronnie Dragoon, owner of Ben's Delicatessen. Learn about the traditions that make deli one of America's great cuisines. Admission is $18.00 in advance and $20.00 at the door. A "nosh" will be served. RSVP to Deborah Lom at dlom@hmtcli.org or 51-571-8040.
Deli Man Movie
More than 160 years of tradition served up by the Jewish deli owners, operators and fanatics who are keeping hot pastrami hot - and a culinary must. Just don't tell your cardiologist.
For some, delicatessen food is close to a religious experience. A tender, crumbling cut of corned beef steeped in its juices. A full-bodied garlic dill pickle. Spicy brown mustard with grain. A blintz that melts in your mouth like a creamsicle on a summer's day. Recipes and culinary garnishes from Hungary, Poland, Russia, Romania that flowed into late 19th and early 20th century America and soon became part of an American culinary and cultural vernacular - Deli.
Deli Man is a documentary film produced and directed by Erik Greenberg Anjou; the third work in his trilogy about Jewish culture. The celebrated preceding films are "A Cantor's Tale" and "The Klezmatics - On Holy Ground" which have to date screened at more than two hundred international film festivals and have been broadcast in the USA, Israel, Canada and Poland. The principal guide of Deli Man is the effusive and charming Ziggy Gruber, a third-generation delicatessen man, owner and maven (as well as a Yiddish-speaking French trained chef) who currently operates one of the country's top delis, Kenny and Ziggy's in Houston. Kenny and Ziggy's has been touted in press reviews ranging from "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" to the LA Daily News.
"Texas?" you ask. Shalom, y'all. Because the story of the American deli is the story of Jews - their immigration, migration, upward mobility and western assimilation. New York may always be the most populous, celebrated and redolent Jewish node. But substantial and influential Jewish tides also flowed from Chicago to Detroit, San Francisco to Los Angeles and Galveston to Houston and Dallas. How this burgeoning tribe moved and thrived from city to suburb and from suburb to strip mall and in the process created a legacy and new generations of wealth, is the sunny topside of the Jewish-American journey. The shadowy understory is how that very success engendered the deterioration of the old, traditional urban block and neighborhood - the epic synagogues, Mom and Pop storefronts, and nucleus of Jewish cultural life at which deli was the succulent heart. |
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516-571-8040 |
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