A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
Jake
Gitl
Bernstein
Mamie
Mrs. Kavarsky
Joe Peltner
Fanny
Joey
Boss
Peddler
Greenhorn
Rabbi
Rabbi's Wife
Lawyer
Jake's Landlady
Feigie
Inspector
Mr. Lipman
Scribe
Kaminsky
Waiter
Poultry Woman
Zalman
Whore
