Drama
The Yiddish King Lear
Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.
Directed by Harry Thomashefsky
95
User score
2 votes
Status
Released
Released
October 1, 1934
Runtime
1h 10m
Language
Yiddish
Top cast
Maurice Krohner
David Moshele, the Yiddish King Lear
Fannie Levenstein
Hanna Lear, Mosheles' wife
Jacob Bergreen
Joffe
Miriam Grossman
Toibelle, Mosheles' youngest daughter
Eddie Pascal
Shomoi
Rose Schwartzberg
Servant
Morris Weisman
Abraham Chariff
Jeannette Paskewich
Estelle, Mosheles' eldest daughter
Morris Tarlowsky
Moses Chorid
Esther Adler
Gitelle, Mosheles' second daughter
Harold Schutzman
Anne G. Sterling
Attractive Girl (uncredited)
