The final episode of the 1940 Yiddish film “Overture to Glory” (Der Vilner Shtot-Khazn). It is the story of the Vilna cantor was for ten years one of the most popular cantors of Vilna, then convinced to leave his family and his people to move to Warsaw, where he became a leading opera star. Some years later he suffered a nervous breakdown and admitted to an assylum. Later on, he traveled on foot for hundreds of miles finally reaching Vilna on the eve of Yom Kippur where he ends up to die in his

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