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 - Knowledge vs. Genuine Connection in Faith
The Cantor:
I have taught him all the hymns and prayers - - he knows them as well as I do.
Sara Rabinowitz:
Yes Papa - he knows all the songs - he has them in his head - - but not in his heart.
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The Jazz Singer - Tradition vs. Individual Desire in Family Legacy
Sara Rabinowitz:
Maybe our boy doesn't want to be a Cantor, Papa...
The Cantor:
What has he to say? For five generations a Rabinowitz has been a Cantor - - he must be one!
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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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The Jazz Singer - Follow Your Heart's True Calling
Sara Rabinowitz:
Do what is in your heart, Jakie—if you sing and God is not in your voice — your father will know.
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The Jazz Singer - A Mother's Acceptance of His Departure
Sara Rabinowitz:
Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there. He's not my boy anymore—he belongs to the whole world now.
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