The Levys of Monticello Trailer

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00:03 Monticello is a way to encounter American history.

00:12 And there has been a history of Jewish involvement

00:16 at Monticello for decades.

00:19 Things were falling apart at Monticello

00:21 when Thomas Jefferson died.

00:23 Who buys it but this most unlikely person?

00:27 People could not believe that a Jew owned Monticello

00:30 and that the mother of the owner was buried there.

00:35 The Levy family, they venerate Jefferson for his views

00:39 on religious toleration.

00:41 And they know that they personally

00:43 have been subject in various ways to anti-Semitism.

00:49 Monticello's survival is due to the dedication of the Levy

00:54 family over 89 years.

00:57 The story of the Levy's is one of the great stories

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