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The Yiddish King Lear

Harry Thomashefsky

1934 • 1h 10m

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.

The Yiddish King Lear

Cast

Esther AdlerGitl

Jacob BergreenJoffe

Miriam GrossmanTaybele

Maurice KrohnerDavid Moshele

Fannie LevensteinHanna, his wife

Eddie PascalShamay

Jeannette PaskewichEstelle

Harold Schutzman

Rose SchwartzbergDiener

Anne G. SterlingAttractive Girl

Morris TarlowskyMoses Choris

Morris WeismanAbraham Chariff

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