The Cantors Son (1937)

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher in a film critic J Hoberman calls an antiJazz Singer Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New Yorks Lower East Side where he is discovered and becomes a wellknown singer Ultimately he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart