East and West

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East and West ★★★ Ost und West 1924

Morris Brown, a worldly New York Jew, returns home to Galicia with his daughter Mollie for a traditional family wedding. She teaches the young villagers to dance and box but meets her romantic match in a young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition to win her heart. Picon shines as the exuberant flapper. With English and Yiddish intertitles. 85m/B VHS . AT Molly Picon, Jacob Kalish, Sidney Goldin; D: Ivan Abramson, Sidney Goldin.

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