A Child of the Ghetto

2015 New York Jewish Film Festival

Film

Saturday, January 24, 2015
7 – 7:15 pm
Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th St

World-renowned banjo player (and Harvard Business School graduate and founder of Compass Records and all around impressive Jewish woman) Alison Brown accompanies this classic from Hollywood legend D.W. Griffith: a documentary-like short tale of a woman’s innocent crime in New York’s bustling Lower East Side and her subsequent escape to the country and romance with a young farmer. Film restoration and new English intertitles by The National Center for Jewish Film.

Screening as part of "From the Vaults"

Screening with The Naked City

A Child of the Ghetto, 1910