A co-presentation with the Jewish Historical Society of NM SKYPE INTERVIEW with Tony Michels, Ph.D Author of A Fire in their Hearts, Yiddish Socialists in New York SPECIAL GUEST: Nate Ockman, former "Coops" resident

They wanted to change the American dream!

At Home in Utopia is the story of the United Workers Cooperative Colony, aka the “Coops”. Its residents were mostly recent Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of whom were Communists and members of the garment workers union who wanted to create a Utopia in the Bronx, NY. An epic tale of the struggle for equity and justice across two generations, the film tracks the rise and fall of one community from the 1920s into the 1950s, paying close attention to the passions that bound them together and those that tore them apart. Along the way, At Home in Utopia bears witness to lives lived with courage across the barriers of race, nation, language, convention, and sometimes even common sense. Meet Tony Michels, Ph.D Tony Michels is a professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin and served as an historical advisor to At Home in Utopia. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts, Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard 2005) which won the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research for Best First Book in Jewish Studies. His new book Jewish Radicals, A Documentary Reader is forthcoming from New York University Press this July. Professor Michels is a frequent speaker at conferences on Jewish Studies and History.

"(recaptures) a daring social experiment ..." New York Times

"(a) rich core-sample of 20th century history ..." Boston Globe

"... be sure to catch a screening of At Home in Utopia ...!" Jewish Women's Archive

Winner 2011 Biennial Award Oral History Association