A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma is a 2002 documentary by Bonnie Burt and Judith Montell about a group of Jews who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe and into prejudice in America.

A Home on the Range uses old photographs, archival color footage of the idealistic society that once existed in Petaluma and features interviews from former residents.

United by their culture, the Jews of Petaluma cared for one another as extended family and survived antisemitism pre-World War II and anticommunist sentiments of the McCarthy era.

Burt and Montell show that, for the farmers of Petaluma, Judaism meant less about God and more about speaking Yiddish, eating matzah, and forming a kibbutz.

She pines for “the core” sense of community attachment that she used to feel, but in exchange admits that she and her neighbors “were fully accepted as Americans.” Co-director Bonnie Burt has been making documentaries about Jewish life since the 1990s.