Uncle Moses

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Uncle Moses ★★½ 1932

The clash of oldworld values and newworld culture in a story of East European Jewish immigrants transplanted to turn of the century New York's Lower East Side. Patriarch Uncle Moses struggles to keep traditional family values as romantic difficulties and labor union struggles intrude. Based on the novel by Sholem Asch. In Yiddish with English subtitles. 87m/B VHS . Maurice Schwartz, Rubin Goldberg, Judith Abarbanel, Zvee Scooler; D: Sidney Goldin, Aubrey Scotto.