East and West (film) explained

East and West
Studio:	Bicon Film Listo Film
Runtime:	8 reels
Country:	Austria
Language:	Silent German intertitles

East and West (German: Ost und West) is a 1923 Austrian silent drama film directed by Ivan Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin and starring Molly Picon, Jacob Kalich and Sidney M. Goldin.^[1] It is also known by the alternative title of Good Luck.

Cast

• Molly Picon as Mollie
• Jacob Kalich as Jacob Talmudist aka Ben Ali
• Sidney M. Goldin as Morris Brownstein aka Brown
• Laura Glucksman as Grandmother Brownstein
• Eugen Neufeld as Alfred Freed
• Johannes Roth
• Ida Astori
• Sigi Hofer
• Saul Nathan
• Eugen Preiß
• Nelly Spodek

Bibliography

• Judith N. Goldberg. Laughter through tears: the Yiddish cinema. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983.

Notes and References

1. Goldberg p.144