Media
The town of Postville and Agriprocessors have been widely covered by the media in the USA and Israel, particularly since the ICE raid in May 2008, mostly focusing on the Jewish element. Postville and Agriprocessors are also the subject of two books, a play, documentary films and an episode of American Greed.
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by journalist Stephen G. Bloom, was published in 2000, the documentary film Postville: When Cultures Collide based on it was released in 2001. Postville U.S.A.: Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America, written by Mark Grey and Michele Devlin, sociologists at the University of Northern Iowa, together with Aaron Goldsmith, a Lubavitcher Hasid and former member of the Postville City Council, came out in 2009, as well as the documentary film on the ICE-raid abUSed. In the same year, seven men who were arrested in the raid wrote a play in Spanish, la Historia de Nuestras Vida (The Story of Our Lives) and performed it at Lutheran churches in Decorah, IA and Minneapolis.
On March 23, 2011 CNBC's American Greed aired an episode related to this story entitled "The Slaughter House".
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