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Little White Lie: Family Origins
In this excerpt from the opening moments of the Independent Lens documentary Little White Lie, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz introduces us to her family tree, a “long line of New York Jews.” Growing up, she tells us, she’d never suspected she was anything but white.
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