“Goodbye O Lord, I'm Going To America!”
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
Joan Micklin Silver
Raphael D. Silver
Joan Micklin Silver
Abraham Cahan
Kenneth Van Sickle
Steven Keats
Jake
Carol Kane
Gitl
Mel Howard
Bernstein
Dorrie Kavanaugh
Mamie
Doris Roberts
Mrs. Kavarsky
Stephen Strimpell
Joe Peltner
Lauren Friedman
Fanny
Paul Freedman
Joey
Martin Garner
Boss
Leib Lensky
Peddler
Zane Lasky
Greenhorn
Zvee Scooler
Rabbi
... and 13 more
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There are a couple of really quite poignant performances here from "Jake" (Steven Keats) and his wife "Gitl" (Carol Kane) as together with their young son they try to make a new life in New York after fleeing from Russia. He had arrived some time earlier and had already become exposed to some of the...
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