The Cantor's Son 1937

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.

Cast

Moyshe Oysher

Florence Weiss

Judith Abarbanel

Michael Rosenberg

Juda Bleich

Bertha Guttenberg

Isidore Cashier

Vicki Marcus

Lorraine Abarbanal

Daniel Makarenko

Irving Honigman

Rose Wallerstein