The film's title resonates on many levels: Thiswas the last Yiddish feature made in Poland before the war, and it is infact already set in New York, taking a hard look at the lives ofturn-of-the-century immigrants. The film deals with "the hardshipsof a people cast adrift in urban America with little hope of preservingtheir traditional family patterns°. The antics of comedy team Dzigan andShumacher work in counterpoint to the story's otherwise unrelieveddifficulties°. First separated and then reunited by immigration, theRivkin family finds no respite either way. Real threats posed by boththe Nazis and increasing anti-Semitism in Poland itself (during thefilm's making) heighten Without a Home's sense of apprehension, and IdaKaminska's touching performance as Bat-Sheva epitomizes it." (NCJF)