Chicken Soup With Barley

For the Kahn family, the Promised Land is neither the Jerusalem of their forebears, nor the East End flat they live in now. They are part of a vibrant community whose dream of a better world is put to an exhilarating test in the anti-fascist riots of the 1930s.

Share in their lives across three decades, as a mother’s resilience contends with a father’s weakness and a family faces the challenges of history.