Picon made
her film debut in European productions. Otto Freister
filmed her first film, Das Judenmadel (The Jewish Girl),
in Austria in 1921. The following year, she starred in
another Yiddish production, Htet eure Tochter (Watch for
Your Daughters). While these films have not survived,
Sidney Goldin and Jacob Kalich's 1923 Viennese
production of Ost und West (East and West) has become the first
surviving Yiddish film. This hilarious depiction of a
feisty secularized American Jewish girl visiting her
traditional relatives in Europe satirized the gulf that
lay between American and European Jewry.
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