Film Screening: Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma | SOMA

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A Home on the Range is a fascinating documentary that tells the story of the many Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe and traveled to Northern California to raise chickens.

Even in the sweatshops of New York, word spread about the town of Petaluma where the Jews were neither shopkeepers nor professionals, but were farmers. Directed and produced by award-winning filmmakers Bonnie Burt and Judith Montell, the film is full of old photographs and archival footage that brings old Petaluma to life and vividly paints a portrait of this fractious, idealistic, intrepid group of Eastern European Jews and their descendants.

Free matinee screenings are presented in conjunction with the Museum’s new admission-free first Tuesdays of the month.

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