Mirele Efros

Release Date: 1939-10-20

Overview: Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

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Cast

Berta Gersten

as

Ruth Elbaum

as

Albert Lipton

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Michael Rosenberg

as

Moishe Feder

as