The Jazz Singer - A Son's Unconditional Connection to His Father
Moisha Yudelson:
Jakie, your singing would be like sunshine to your Papa.
Jakie Rabinowitz:
You don't understand - he ordered me out of the house.
Moisha Yudelson:
Jakie, remember - - a son's a son no matter if his Papa throws him out a hundred times!
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The Jazz Singer - A Son's Desire for His Mother's Approval
Jakie Rabinowitz: [after singing]
Did you like that mama?
Sara Rabinowitz:
Yes.
Jakie Rabinowitz:
I'm glad of it. I'd rather please you then anybody I know of. Oh darlin, would you give me something?
Sara Rabinowitz:
What?
Jakie Rabinowitz:
You'll never guess. Shut your eyes mama, shut them for little Jackie. Ho, I'm gonna steal something.
Jakie Rabinowitz:
I'll give it back to you to someday, you see if I don't. Mama darling, if I'm a success in this show, well, we're going to move from here. Oh yes, we're move up in to Bronx. A lot of nice green grass up there and a whole lot of people you know of, there's the Ginsburgs and the Guttenburgs, the Goldbergs, a whole lotta Burgs oh I don't know them all. And I'm going to buy you a nice black silk dress mama. You'll see, the butcher's wife, she'll be jealous of you.
Sara Rabinowitz:
Oh no, no...
Jakie Rabinowitz:
Yes, she will, you see if she isn't. And I'm going to get you a nice pink dress that will go with your brown eyes.
Sara Rabinowitz:
I, no thank you, no no, I don't need it.
Jakie Rabinowitz:
What do you mean no? Who is telling you? Yes, you'll wear pink or else, or else you'll wear pink.
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The Jazz Singer - The Clash of Music and Tradition
Jakie Rabinowitz:
You taught me that music is the voice of God! It is as honorable to sing in the theatre as in the synagogue! My songs mean as much to my audience as yours to your congregation!
The Cantor:
Leave my house! I never want to see you again - you jazz singer!
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The Jazz Singer - Conflict Over Musical Aspirations and Parenting
The Cantor:
I'll teach him better than to debase the voice God gave him!
Sara Rabinowitz:
But Papa - our boy, he does not think like we do.
The Cantor:
First he will get a whipping!
Jakie Rabinowitz:
If you whip me again, I'll run away - - and never come back!
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