Film Screening:

Deli Man

(Erik Anjou, 2014, 92 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Q&A to follow w/ director Erik Anjou!

Deli Man is a documentary about the American deli. It is also the story of Jews - their immigration, migration, upward mobility, and western assimilation. New York may always be the most populous, celebrated and redolent Jewish node. But substantial and influential Jewish tides also flowed from Chicago to Detroit, San Francisco to L.A., and Galveston to Houston and Dallas. How this burgeoning tribe moved and thrived from city to suburb and from suburb to strip mall, and in the process created a legacy and new generations of wealth, is the sunny topside of the Jewish-American journey. The shadowy understory is how that very success engendered the deterioration of the old, traditional urban block and neighborhood - the epic synagogues, Mom and Pop storefronts, and nucleus of Jewish cultural life at which deli was the succulent heart.

"Between all the towering corned beef and food talk, Deli Man will leave you hankering for the nearest place to get some "haimishe maykholim" - Yiddish for 'home-style cooking.' "-- Washington Post 

"Compelling and provocative...a brilliantly complex film." -- The Seattle Times  

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke Center for Jewish Studies (CJS), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).