America, The Dream of My Life

hree half-hour radio documentaries about the immigrant experience, coproduced by WBGO and the New Jersey Historical Commission during the hundredth-anniversary year of the opening of Ellis Island.

The programs feature professional actors, who bring to life some of the stories that were collected from immigrants during the 1930s by fieldworkers of the Federal Writers' Project.

Program One titled "The Unbroken Chain" is about the Chain Migration of Irish, Jewish, Polish, and Italian immigrants to Newark and Paterson, New Jersey.

Program Two titled "Lost Places" is about the "sense of place" of immigrants for a Yiddish movie theater, pushcarts and prostitutes on Prince Street, the Third Ward, an empty lot in Newark, and the Dutch community in Prospect Park.

Program Three titled "America Is a Man's World Too" is about the memories World War I of a Russian-Jewish woman, Polish women domestics, a Lithuanian girl crippled in an accident, a woman remembering the loss of their home in Maplewood, and the sufferings of an Ukrainian-Jewish woman. Hide full description

hree half-hour radio documentaries about the immigrant experience, coproduced by WBGO and the New Jersey Historical Commission during the hundredth-anniversary year of the opening of Ellis Island. The programs feature professional actors, who bring to life some of the stories that were collected from immigrants during the 1930s by fieldworkers of the Federal Writers' Project. Program One titled "The Unbroken Chain" is about the Chain Migration of Irish, Jewish, Polish, and Italian immigrants to Newark and Paterson, New Jersey. Program Two titled "Lost Places" is about the "sense of place" of immigrants for a Yiddish movie theater, pushcarts and prostitutes on Prince Street, the Third Ward, an empty lot in Newark, and the Dutch community in Prospect Park. Program Three titled... Show full description