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From Lithuanian To New Rochelle
Ragtime tells the story of a humble Jewish Lithuanian immigrant and
his rise to the New Rochelle middle class
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Tateh With His Daughter
Rachel
Among the immigrants are
Tateh, a Latvian widower who has come to America to give his daughter
a new life;
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Rich Goyim Wants The Girl
After a rich man offers
to buy the little girl, Tateh rages at God and America, and swears
to find the life he dreamed about.
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The New Rochelle Gentiles
They aren't very happy with who is moving in next door.
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Schwartzers Jiving
Naturally the Blacks are portrayed as dancing fornicators, and
gangsters. They were house boys, but thanks to Jewish movements, they
have been liberated.
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The Ku Klux Klan
The black guy takes a trip down south, and the KKK beats him and
takes his car.
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McKinley's Bodyguards Kill The Wife
The wife approaches President McKinley about the KKK and the Secret
Service guns her down.
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Gentile Country Club
The haughty gentiles don't want the Jews in their country club.
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Henry Ford
Somehow Henry Ford winds up in New Rochelle, and naturally he is a
bad guy.
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JP Morgan Comes Out Of The Closet
It turns out that Morgan stands behind the Jewish
assimilation, admitting he is a Crypto.
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Harry Houdini
Slithering out of their Shetl's to bring joy to the world.
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Evelyn Nesbit
How they transformed a few crappy vauderville acts
into the broadway of today.
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Immigrants Strut Around New Rochelle
Just a few short years ago they were running from 'John Law' in the
ghettoes of Eastern Europe, now they are New York High Society.
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Emma Goldman The Anarchist
Emma was a communist/Union
Organizer who was connected to McKinley's assassination. Younger
Brother inadvertently stumbles into a rally on "The Night That Goldman
Spoke At Union Square".
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Making Movies
Soon these immigrants are off to Hollywood.
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Tateh The Immigrant Makes His Fortune
Tateh invents a lucrative product, the "movie book" and become
successful.
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Nazis Sink The Lusitanian
In a stroke of luck for European Jewry, the Nazis decide to sink
an ocean liner, and that gives Woodrow Wilson the impetus to enter
WW1.
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