Maurice Schwartz
Moses
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Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parent...
- 83 min
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- Jamila Mikhail
A master in the harsh new American system, with its fourteen-hour workday, Moses attempts to reconstruct the lost harmony of the shtetl community in the paternalistic order of his sweatshop. He uses his wealth to show off and leaves the daily operations to his nephew Sam.
"Uncle" Moses is a wealthy garment store owner in the Lower East Side. He lords his wealth and its attendant power over the neighborhood, dispensing noblesse oblige and conducting casual affairs with numerous women.
Uncle Moses: Directed by Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto. With Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel, Mark Schweid, Sam Gertler. Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.
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- Drama, Romance
- Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto
- 1992-12-12
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.
A master in the harsh new American system, with its fourteen-hour workday, Moses attempts to reconstruct the lost harmony of the shtetl community in the paternalistic order of his sweatshop. He uses his wealth to show off and leaves the daily operations to his nephew Sam.
The legendary Yiddish stage actor Maurice Schwartz is brilliant as Uncle Moses, the benevolent despot among his uprooted lansmen, whose passion for Masha, the tailor's daughter, is thwarted by circumstances beyond his control.
