Motel the Operator

Motel the Operator

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Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.

Chaim Tauber

Malvina Rappel

Maurice Kroner

Berthe Hart

Seymour Rechtzeit

Jacob Zanger

Yetta Zwerling

Gertrude Krause

Herman Rosen

Izidor Frankel

Seymour Rechzeit

Maurice Krohner

Joseph Schoengold

Louis 'Leibele' Waldman