Movie: Love in the Ghetto

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Ralph Ince
Ralph Ince

Barish - the Father

Rosemary Theby
Rosemary Theby

Rebecca Barish - the Daughter

Tom Powers
Tom Powers

Sammy Bertram - Rebecca's Sweetheart

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    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.

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    1912-05-13

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