Comedy · United States of America · 1908 · 12m

Romance of a Jewess

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Director
D.W. Griffith
Cast
Florence Lawrence as Ruth Simonson George Gebhardt as Simon Bimberg Gladys Egan as The Daughter Mack Sennett as Customer / In Bookstore / Doctor
Crew
D.W. Griffith — Writer
Synopsis

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.

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