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Learn more- Ill, and unable to pay her rent, Olga, a Russian refugee, is obliged to go to a hospital and leaves her child in the care of Israel Levi, a well-to-do, kind-hearted Jew, who has lost both wife and daughter. On the way to the hospital, Olga, weak and exhausted, faints in the middle of the street, is run over by an automobile and killed. Israel reads of her death and learns that she has not been identified, the wedding ring she left with Israel being the only clue on hand. Israel, with the help of Mrs. Benjamin, a good-natured widow, brings up the child as his own. Little Olga, now called Rachel, exhibits an extraordinary talent for music and on her fourteenth birthday Israel gives her a present of a fine violin. Rosenstein, a musician friend of Israel's, happens to overhear the girl play and goes into raptures. He interests his friend, Ivan Metroff, the great Russian violinist in Rachel, and realizing the child's really wonderful talent, Ivan consents to give her violin lessons. He is also haunted by something strangely familiar in her face. Later, Ivan's cousin, Loris, after concluding his music studies abroad, joins his uncle in New York. He meets Rachel, now a beautiful young lady, and becomes enamored of her, but Ivan, who still retains his intolerant bigotry and pride of birth, refuses his consent to the match with "the daughter of Israel." Rachel, heartbroken, appeals to Israel, who tells Metroff that while he cannot tell just who Rachel is, she is not a Jewess and not his daughter. He exhibits the wedding ring left by Rachel's mother with the engraving, "From Ivan to Olga." Metroff recognizes it as the ring given his own wife, and Rachel, as his own daughter. There is a happy reunion and Ivan at once gives his consent to her marriage with Loris. while Israel remains their lifelong friend.
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