Uncle Moses, the second offering this season of the Maurice Schwartz Yiddish Art Theatre, was given its first performance on Friday night. Written by Sholom Asch, it is the third novel of his to be presented in dramatized form on the Yiddish stage this season, the other two being the Witch of Castile and The Chair.
Uncle Moses, which is in ten scenes, tells of a manufacturer who has brought over most of the people of his native town in Russia to work for him For the sake of his career he neglects to marry until he nears the age of 50 when he marries a young girl. His wife leaves him when gangsters whom he has employed suppress a strike led by her old sweetheart and Uncle Moses is in the end crushed by fate.
Maurice Schwartz takes the leading role in Uncle Moses. Others who play important parts are Lazar Freed, Joseph Buloff, Anna Appel, Stella Adler, Shulamith Posner, Betty Faurkauf and Wolf Goldfaden.
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