Fully restored by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this classic 1925 silent film is a melodrama in Yiddish Theatre tradition.
The story of two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side...Morris the good student and apple of his father's eye and Sammy, the black sheep of the family. When Sammy secretly becomes a boxer to pay for Morris's law school fees, Morris turns around and rejects his poor, uneducated family.
Will the father realize that Morris is a no-goodnik? Will he accept Sammy as a boxer with an eye for an Irish girl? Will the family stay together or be torn apart? Will Sammy be knocked out in the third round? Oy Gevalt!
The film will play to a live musical score commissioned by the Museum of Jewish History, as performed by Composer Paul Shapiro and his six-piece jazz band.
Location: Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Tickets: $29, $25
For more information please call: 619-570-1100
or visit: sandiegotheatres.org,
sdcjc.lfjcc.org
The story of two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side...Morris the good student and apple of his father's eye and Sammy, the black sheep of the family. When Sammy secretly becomes a boxer to pay for Morris's law school fees, Morris turns around and rejects his poor, uneducated family.
Will the father realize that Morris is a no-goodnik? Will he accept Sammy as a boxer with an eye for an Irish girl? Will the family stay together or be torn apart? Will Sammy be knocked out in the third round? Oy Gevalt!
The film will play to a live musical score commissioned by the Museum of Jewish History, as performed by Composer Paul Shapiro and his six-piece jazz band.
Location: Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Tickets: $29, $25
For more information please call: 619-570-1100
or visit: sandiegotheatres.org,
sdcjc.lfjcc.org
