Summary
In Ivan Abramson’s 1917 drama, the domestic sphere becomes a battleground for religious purity and social climbing. The narrative follows the daughter of a prominent rabbi who finds herself ensnared by a forbidden romance with a humble violinist. This union is met with fierce resistance from her father, who views the musician as an outsider of a different creed, preferring instead a wealthy suitor from his own congregation. The tension reaches a breaking point when a series of misunderstandings leads the rabbi to believe his daughter has eloped in defiance of his laws. In a moment of patriarchal fury, he casts her out into a cold, unforgiving world. However, the film pivots on a convenient revelation: the violinist’s mother admits her son was adopted and is, in fact, Jewish. This bloodline revelation serves as the ultimate resolution, mending the fractured family through a lens of biological destiny rather than ideological growth.
Synopsis
The daughter of a rabbi falls in love with a violinist. Her father, the rabbi, opposes the match because he is of another creed, and wishes her to marry a wealthy member of his congregation. A situation arises which leads the rabbi to believe that she has eloped with the violinist, and he orders her from the house, but happiness is restored all around when the wealthy women whom the violinists believes is his mother reveals the fact that he is Jewish, having been adopted.
