Film

The Yiddish King Lear

9.519341h 10mDrama

Director: Harry Thomashefsky
Year: 1934

Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.

Top cast

Maurice Krohner

David Moshele, the Yiddish King Lear

Fannie Levenstein

Hanna Lear, Mosheles' wife

Jacob Bergreen

Joffe

Miriam Grossman

Toibelle, Mosheles' youngest daughter

Eddie Pascal

Shomoi

Rose Schwartzberg

Servant

Morris Weisman

Abraham Chariff

Jeannette Paskewich

Estelle, Mosheles' eldest daughter

Morris Tarlowsky

Moses Chorid

Esther Adler

Gitelle, Mosheles' second daughter

Harold Schutzman

Anne G. Sterling

Attractive Girl (uncredited)

Directed by

Harry Thomashefsky

Written by

Abraham Armband

Produced by

Johnnie Walker, Jack Rieger