Director
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.
Producer
Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.
Director
Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.
Director
A young woman posing as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland.
(uncredited)
몇 대째 가문 대대로 내려오는 칸토르(유대교의 예배에서 노래를 부르는 선창자) 자리를 물려받게 되어 있는 유태인 소년 재키 라비노비츠(아역, 로버트(바비) 고든 분)는 재즈 가수를 꿈꾸며 아버지의 반대를 뿌리치고 집을 뛰쳐나간다. 재키는 13세 시절부터 업소에서 춤을 추고 노래를 부르며 재즈가수의 꿈을 키워나간다. 재키는 이름도 대중이 알기 쉬운 "잭 로빈"으로 개명하고 뉴욕에서 서서히 이름을 알려 브로드웨이의 커다란 공연에서 주연을 하게 될 기회를 잡게 된다. 하지만 첫 공연 전날 아버지가 위독하다는 소식을 듣게 되고, 가수로서 장래를 포기하더라도 아버지를 위해 노래하겠다고 생각하고 아버지 대신 유대교 속죄일 예배에서 노래를 부르며 아버지의 임종을 지킨다. 그 날 재키의 노래는 많은 사람들을 감동시키고, 그는 첫 공연에 빠져서 노래를 부르지 못했음에도 불구하고 브로드웨이의 인기 가수로 성공하게 된다.
