The Jews Christmas (1913)

Early Lois Weber film Isaac and his faithful wife Rachel deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath Leah and Sam are not so strict as their parents and the old customs pall about their more American spirits Sam is employed in a cloak house and secretly loves his employers daughter but she refuses to recognize him Leah is loved by the handsome gentile floorwalker and despite her fathers objections she marries him Isaac orders Leah from the house Later the daughter of the cloak manufacturer marries an admirer and Sam is invited to the wedding He drinks and disgraces himself and returning home is turned out by the heartbroken rabbi He leaves telling the old man that he will return when the father celebrated the Christian Christmas