
            A documentary that tells the history of one food store on the Lower East Side of New York City, Russ and Daughters. It tells of the founder, Joel Russ, a penniless immigrant from Eastern Europe, and his wife Bella, Joel sold herring from a pushcart on the Lower East Side, and then opened a smoked fish store 100 years ago at 179 Houston Street, where the store still does business. The movie tells of the Russes' three three daughters, who become partners in the store (one of the only business at that time, and perhaps in our time, to add "and Daughters" to the founder's name. The daughters ran the store, found husbands in the store, and the husbands became partners. The second generation passed the store to the third generation, who brought non-Jews into the business, including Herman Vargas, The Artistic Slicer." Members of the fourth generation, Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, have modernized the business and, in 2014, opened a Russ and Daughters cafe on Orchard Street. Interspersed throughout the story is a tale of Jews in America and the rise, fall, and rise again of the Lower East Side. Jewish music punctuates the story, and anecdotes are evoked from famous customers, such as Calvin Trillin, Morley Safer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
    

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