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Uncle Moses

  • 153 Main Street Fort Lee, NJ, 07024 United States (map)

Uncle Moses

1932 | Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance | Digital

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Uncle Moses, one of the finest examples of Yiddish cinema, was filmed in Fort Lee. Uncle Moses, an immigrant from a Polish shtetl, becomes the harsh owner of a New York clothing factory. The drama revolves around a romantic triangle, and a labor activist trying to organize a union in Moses’ factory. Film critic Georgia Brown wrote "Here is a chance to see one of the century's greatest actors (Maurice Schwartz) in a melodrama focusing on work and tenement life in the Lower East Side.”

Director: Sidney Goldin, Aubrey Scotto

Writers: Maurice Schwartz, Sholom Asch

Stars: Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel, Mark Schweid

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