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Film, Video Haven to Home: An American Journey

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

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Title

  • Haven to Home: An American Journey

Summary

  • This live performance tells the stories of Emma Lazarus, an immigrant's daughter who became known as Lady Liberty's poet, and Irving Berlin, an immigrant who became one of America's best loved composers. The original play, commissioned by the Hebraic Section and written and directed by Roberta Gasbarre, Director of The Discovery Theater, Smithsonian Associates, explores how the values of liberty, opportunity, and religious freedom shaped American history. The 45 minute presentation was one of the public programs related to the Library of Congress exhibition, "From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America."

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2004-12-06.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Religion
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Immigration, American Expansion
  • -  Irving Berlin, Emma Lazurus

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Various.
  • -  Recorded on 2004-12-06.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Visitors.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687700

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Haven to Home: An American Journey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-06, 2004. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021687700/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2004) Haven to Home: An American Journey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-06. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021687700/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Haven to Home: An American Journey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-06, 2004. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021687700/>.