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ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 3. Becoming Americans: A Journey Through the Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Yiddish Theater - Culture and religion of the Old Country abandoned - The Triangle Shirtwaist fire - Assimilation into mainstream America

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:26
Purchases: 10

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 4. White Christmas: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and George Gershwin reinvented American popular music

Bought by WCPN, KCSM, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:21
Purchases: 15

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 5. Over the Rainbow: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Yiddish-speaking moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn created Hollywood, and an idealized, small-town Protestant America that never was.

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, New England Public Media and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:13
Purchases: 9

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 6. No Dogs or Jews Allowed: The Story of Antisemitism in America.

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Story of Antisemitism in America - Father Coughlin, Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh publicly denounce Jews - Joe Lieberman chosen to run for V...

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:19
Purchases: 9

Operation Pedro Pan

From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views

The story of a little-known US-sponsored program that removed 14,000 children from Cuba just after the Cuban revolution, as told by a woman who was...

Bought by PRX Remix, WBEZ, and WRPI

Added: Apr 13, 2007
Length: 16:59
Purchases: 3

My Grandparents in WW2

From: KBOO Youth Collective

Interview with the Zeller Grandparents about their lives during WW 2.

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Mar 21, 2007
Length: 08:13
Purchases: 1

CL 2006 Taylor Branch "Miracles and myths from the King era."

From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures

Historian and Martin Luther King biographer Taylor Branch talks about the civil rights movement.

Bought by WDSE, WSKG, WRPI, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KSJD

Added: Jan 03, 2007
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 5

SOWETO Today

From: Mikko Kapanen

The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

Added: Dec 06, 2006
Length: 10:30

DIRTY HARRY - When the American Dream Became a Nightmare

From: Claes Andreasson

The effects of the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada on people working at, and living downwind from the test site

Bought by KUER, KOSU, Nevada Public Radio, PRX Remix, WNIJ and more

Added: Sep 21, 2006
Length: 59:59
Purchases: 11

A Map of The Sea

From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference

An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by HowSound, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland and more

Added: May 04, 2006
Length: 14:57
Purchases: 8

RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis