Love in the Ghetto

Love in the Ghetto

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 13, 1912

Genres

Drama, Romance

Original Title

Love in the Ghetto

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

Director

Hal Reid

Description

Everybody's ordered out on a strike when Benjamin Cohen, proprietor of a sweat-shop, reduces the employees' wages ten per cent. Rebecca Barish, a young Jewess, and her father, reluctantly go out with the rest. Unable to find other work, their circumstances become so reduced that Rebecca is obliged to go to the pawnshop with some of their belongings, and while there, Jacob Stattler, the pawnbroker, takes a fancy to her, and offers her father, through a schatehen, five hundred dollars to give her to him in manage.