| Notes: Director: George Roland; In order to capitalize on the growing Yiddish population in America, Joseph Green(Greenberg) took a silent biblical Italian movie, wrote a screenplay for it and dubbed it in Yiddish using Yiddish speaking actors. He thus created what is considered to be the first talkie filmed in Yiddish. The film enjoyed great success in America and Europe, especially in Poland which was then the largest Jewish center. So popular was the movie, titled |
