Released:
1937-12-26

Overview:
This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.

Directors:
Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
Drama, Music

• Cast:
• 
  Moyshe Oysher
  as
  Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman
• 
  Florence Weiss
  as
  Helen
• 
  Judith Abarbanel
  as
  Rivke
• 
  Michael Rosenberg
  as
  Yossel Lutchik
• 
  Juda Bleich
  as
  Cantor Zanvel Reichman