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 ten 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)