
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

as Jake

as Gitl

as Bernstein

as Mamie

as Mrs. Kavarsky

as Joe Peltner

as Fanny

as Joey

as Boss

as Peddler

as Greenhorn

as Rabbi

as Rabbi's Wife

as Lawyer

as Jake's Landlady

as Feigie

as Inspector

as Mr. Lipman

as Scribe

as Kaminsky

as Waiter

as Poultry Woman

as Zalman


as Whore