The Cantor's Son

The Cantor's Son 1937 Directed by Ilya Motyleff , Sidney M. Goldin

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.

Country USA

Language English

Spoken Language Yiddish

Release Date 26 December 1937

90 mins