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    Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream

    Poster of the movie Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
    2014     Documentary    
    USA
    1h 5min

    On Manhattan's Lower East Side, in a series of four nondescript brick tenement buildings, sits the Streit's Matzo factory. In 1925, when Aron Streit opened the factory's doors, it sat at the heart of the nations largest Jewish immigrant community. Today, in its fifth generation of family ownership, in a rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side, it remains as the last family owned matzo factory in America.

    This is a place rooted in history and tradition, and not only in the sense that the recipe for their product is 3,000 years old. The machinery still used here to bake and pack 40% of the nation's matzo is as old as the factory itself. The owners still sit at their great-grandfathers' desks, declining to clear the drawers of the contents left by their forbearers. They have, again and again, refused exorbitant sums offered by developers for their real estate, and resisted modernizing the facility, worried at the potential effects on their fiercely loyal workforce, made up of neighborhood residents and immigrants from around the world, many of whom have been working there for 30 years or more.

    Directed byMichael Levine
    Written byMichael Levine
    CompanyMatzofilmMatzofilmMatzofilm

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    1:42

    Trailer

    9 years ago

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