Samuel Landau

A young woman poses as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland.

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows.

Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.

L'histoire d'amour mystique entre Chonen, une pauvre étudiante du Talmud, et Lea, une fille d'une famille riche, dépeint la culture folklorique traditionnelle des Juifs polonais avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.