Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.
as Motel Friedman
as Esther Friedman
as Benjamin Rosenwald
as Rebecca Rosenwald
as Jack Rosenwald
as Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
as Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
as Ruth Frumkin
as Doctor
as Boss
as Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
as Benjamin Rosenwald
as The Cantor
