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Category:The Jazz Singer (play)

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Articles relating to the theatrical play The Jazz Singer (1925) by Samson Raphaelson and its adaptations. The play concerns a relationship between a father and his son. Jakie Rabinowitz, the son of Jewish immigrants, has launched a career as a jazz singer, performing in blackface under the name Jack Robin. His father, a cantor for an Orthodox synagogue on the East Side of Manhattan, disapproves of Jack's choices.