Sara Rabinowitz Do what is in your heart, Jakie—if you sing and God is not in your voice — your father will know.
Played by Eugenie Besserer 
The Jazz Singer (1927) · 18 quotes
The Jazz Singer (1927) · 18 quotes
Tied for most-quoted character in The Jazz Singer (1927): in 6 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Cantor Rabinowitz (3), Jakie Rabinowitz (2)
Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there. He's not my boy anymore—he belongs to the whole world now.
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I'll teach him better than to debase the voice God gave him!
Sara Rabinowitz But Papa - our boy, he does not think like we do.
First he will get a whipping!
If you whip me again, I'll run away - - and never come back!
Sara Rabinowitz Maybe our boy doesn't want to be a Cantor, Papa...
What has he to say? For five generations a Rabinowitz has been a Cantor - - he must be one!
I have taught him all the hymns and prayers - - he knows them as well as I do.
Sara Rabinowitz Yes Papa - he knows all the songs - he has them in his head - - but not in his heart.
Sara Rabinowitz Yes.
I'm glad of it. I'd rather please you then anybody I know of. Oh darlin, would you give me something?
Sara Rabinowitz What?
You'll never guess. Shut your eyes mama, shut them for little Jackie. Ho, I'm gonna steal something.
[He kisses her, and they laugh together]
I'll give it back to you to someday, you see if I don't. Mama darling, if I'm a success in this show, well, we're going to move from here. Oh yes, we're move up in to Bronx. A lot of nice green grass up there and a whole lot of people you know of, there's the Ginsburgs and the Guttenburgs, the Goldbergs, a whole lotta Burgs oh I don't know them all. And I'm going to buy you a nice black silk dress mama. You'll see, the butcher's wife, she'll be jealous of you.
Sara Rabinowitz Oh no, no...
Yes, she will, you see if she isn't. And I'm going to get you a nice pink dress that will go with your brown eyes.
Sara Rabinowitz I, no thank you, no no, I don't need it.
What do you mean no? Who is telling you? Yes, you'll wear pink or else, or else you'll wear pink.
