Mirele Efros · 1939

Mirele Efros

Josef Berne · 80 min · United States of America

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.

Cast

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  Berta Gersten

• Ruth Elbaum

• Albert Lipton

• Michael Rosenberg

• Moishe Feder