:37:00
we don't want any mention
of God in the ceremony.
:37:02
- What?
- I'm gonna have him arrested!
:37:05
No God in the ceremony, hmm?
:37:11
Getting a lot of turndowns,
aren't you?
:37:16
Surprising, isn't it, how the name of God
is still respected in this town.
:37:21
[Sighs]
:37:24
Your father and me go back
a long ways, young lady.
:37:27
He's done me a lot of favors.
:37:29
Got me tickets to shows.
:37:32
I'd like to help him out.
:37:35
My mother... thank God
she's not alive today...
:37:38
landed in this country
65 years ago.
:37:40
Four infants in her arms.
:37:42
Kissed the sidewalk the minute she got
off the boat, she was so happy to be here...
:37:46
to be out of Russia alive...
across the ocean alive.
:37:49
More dead than alive,
if you want to know the truth.
:37:53
Sixteen days in the steerage,
15 people got consumption...
:37:56
five died!
:37:59
My father... thank God
he's not alive today...
:38:02
came over two years earlier...
67 years ago.
:38:05
Worked like a son of a bitch
to earn our passage.
:38:09
Pardon my French.
:38:11
You don't want God in the ceremony,
so you're probably familiar with it.
:38:15
My father worked 14 hours a day
in a sweatshop on lower Broadway.
:38:19
Number 315. Our first apartment
was a five-flight walk-up...
:38:24
four-and-a-half room
cold-water flat...
:38:26
with the bathtub in the kitchen
and the toilet down the hall.
:38:31
142 Hester Street.
:38:34
Three families used the toilet...
:38:36
an Italian family,
a colored family...
:38:39
a Jewish family.
:38:41
Three families with different faiths.
:38:44
But one thing each of those families
had in common.
:38:47
They had in common the sacrifices
they had to make to get where they were.
:38:51
What they had in common
was... persecution!
:38:57
Persecution!