Uncle Moses Movie Review 1932

The clash of old-world values and new-world culture in a story of East European Jewish immigrants transplanted to turn of the century New York's Lower East Side. Patriarch Uncle Moses struggles to keep traditional family values as romantic difficulties and labor union struggles intrude. Based on the novel by Sholem Asch. In Yiddish with English subtitles.

Distribution

National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, Lown Bldg. 102 MS 053, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, Phone: (781)899-7044, Fax: (781)736-2070, Email: ncjf@logos.cc.brandeis.edu, URL: http://www.jewishfilm.org

Available on VHS
Running time 87 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Family Ties, Judaism

Cast

Maurice Schwartz, Rubin Goldberg, Judith Abarbanel, Zvee Scooler

Director

Sidney Goldin, Aubrey Scotto