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Leon Kantor is a boy in a Jewish neighborhood in New York some time during UsefulNotes/TheEdwardianEra, the son of immigrant Jewish refugees from UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia. When he sees a violin in a thrift shop he begs his father to buy it, but his father doesn't want to shell out $4. His mother then produces an old violin that Leon's older brother abandoned. Leon can immediately play it like a virtuoso.
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Leon Kantor is a boy in a Jewish neighborhood in New York some time during UsefulNotes/TheEdwardianEra, TheEdwardianEra, the son of immigrant Jewish refugees from UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia. When he sees a violin in a thrift shop he begs his father to buy it, but his father doesn't want to shell out $4. His mother then produces an old violin that Leon's older brother abandoned. Leon can immediately play it like a virtuoso.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Leon knocks 'em dead.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Leon knocks 'em dead.]]
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* GreedyJew: So the Gentile bullies in Leon's neighborhood think. They gang up on him and draw a dollar sign on the back of his jacket.
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In 1946 it was loosely remade into a film starring John Garfield as the violinist and Creator/JoanCrawford as his lady patron.
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* JewishMother: Mama Kantor is a Jewish mother straight from central casting. When Leon is touring Europe to great acclaim, she is following along, showing his baby pictures to random strangers.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Abraham is scornful of Mama Kantor's desire to encourage her son to be a violinist, wishing instead that Leon would join him in Abraham's brass business. When Leon is later a huge success, Abraham tells Mama Kantor, "Didn't I always tell you that my boy would be someday a fancy feedler?"
* JewishMother: Mama Kantor is a Jewish mother straight from central casting. When Leon is touring Europe to great acclaim, she is following along, showing his baby pictures to random strangers. She extols how handsome he is. When it's time for him to go to France, she asks him to sit in her lap like when he was a child.
* JewishMother: Mama Kantor is a Jewish mother straight from central casting. When Leon is touring Europe to great acclaim, she is following along, showing his baby pictures to random strangers. She extols how handsome he is. When it's time for him to go to France, she asks him to sit in her lap like when he was a child.
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* ChildProdigy: Little Leon plays the hell out of a violin the first time he is given one.
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* AllJewsAreCheap: Leon's father Abraham doesn't want to fork over the money for the violin, trying to convince his son that a cheap kazoo or a tinny music box are just as good.
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* AllJewsAreCheap: AllJewsAreCheapskates: Leon's father Abraham doesn't want to fork over the money for the violin, trying to convince his son that a cheap kazoo or a tinny music box are just as good.
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''Humoresque'' is a 1920 film directed by Creator/FrankBorzage.
Leon Kantor is a boy in a Jewish neighborhood in New York some time during UsefulNotes/TheEdwardianEra, the son of immigrant Jewish refugees from UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia. When he sees a violin in a thrift shop he begs his father to buy it, but his father doesn't want to shell out $4. His mother then produces an old violin that Leon's older brother abandoned. Leon can immediately play it like a virtuoso.
Cut forward about a decade. Leon has established himself as one of the world's foremost violinists, much to the delight of his parents, giving performances all over the world. And he's fallen in love with Gina Berg, a girl from his neighborhood. All this happiness is gravely threatened by the entry of the United States into [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI The Great War]].
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* AllJewsAreCheap: Leon's father Abraham doesn't want to fork over the money for the violin, trying to convince his son that a cheap kazoo or a tinny music box are just as good.
* FunetikAksent: Used occasionally in the title cards to indicate the Jewish New Yorker accent of Leon's parents, like when Abraham says "This is moosik!"
* FunnyForeigner: Abraham the Russian immigrant. ("Now mama, you eat dinner before I get mad from you.")
* RedHerring: The opening scene of the film reveals that Leon's older brother Manny, who is in his late teens, has the mind of an infant due to some sort of brain damage suffered while leaving Russia. This has nothing at all to do with the rest of the story.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Leon spends months despondent, a cripple unable to play his violin due to his arm being damaged in the war. When Gina fakes a suicide with pills, Leon snaps out of it, picking her up with both arms and carrying her to a couch. Afterwards, he can play the violin again. Justified, sort of, when a doctor says Leon can break through the scar tissue in his shoulder with an act of will.
* TimeSkip: Something like ten years between young Leon revealing himself as a child prodigy with the violin, and adult Leon as an acclaimed concert violinist.
* TitleDrop: The audience at Leon's hometown concert shouts for a "humoresque", that is, a piece that is lively and humorous. Later, Leon's mother asks for one as he is going off to war.
Leon Kantor is a boy in a Jewish neighborhood in New York some time during UsefulNotes/TheEdwardianEra, the son of immigrant Jewish refugees from UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia. When he sees a violin in a thrift shop he begs his father to buy it, but his father doesn't want to shell out $4. His mother then produces an old violin that Leon's older brother abandoned. Leon can immediately play it like a virtuoso.
Cut forward about a decade. Leon has established himself as one of the world's foremost violinists, much to the delight of his parents, giving performances all over the world. And he's fallen in love with Gina Berg, a girl from his neighborhood. All this happiness is gravely threatened by the entry of the United States into [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI The Great War]].
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!!Tropes:
* AllJewsAreCheap: Leon's father Abraham doesn't want to fork over the money for the violin, trying to convince his son that a cheap kazoo or a tinny music box are just as good.
* FunetikAksent: Used occasionally in the title cards to indicate the Jewish New Yorker accent of Leon's parents, like when Abraham says "This is moosik!"
* FunnyForeigner: Abraham the Russian immigrant. ("Now mama, you eat dinner before I get mad from you.")
* RedHerring: The opening scene of the film reveals that Leon's older brother Manny, who is in his late teens, has the mind of an infant due to some sort of brain damage suffered while leaving Russia. This has nothing at all to do with the rest of the story.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Leon spends months despondent, a cripple unable to play his violin due to his arm being damaged in the war. When Gina fakes a suicide with pills, Leon snaps out of it, picking her up with both arms and carrying her to a couch. Afterwards, he can play the violin again. Justified, sort of, when a doctor says Leon can break through the scar tissue in his shoulder with an act of will.
* TimeSkip: Something like ten years between young Leon revealing himself as a child prodigy with the violin, and adult Leon as an acclaimed concert violinist.
* TitleDrop: The audience at Leon's hometown concert shouts for a "humoresque", that is, a piece that is lively and humorous. Later, Leon's mother asks for one as he is going off to war.
