Judith Trachtenberg is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Leontine Kühnberg, Ernst Deutsch and Leonhard Haskel.
[1] In 1932 it was released in the United States, re-edited to include sound, under the alternative title A Daughter of Her People.
It was one of a significant cycle of films in the early 1920s which dealt with issues of Jewish cultural assimilation including Love One Another (1922), The Ancient Law (1923) and The City Without Jews (1924).
The film's plotline of a Jewish woman becoming involved with an aristocratic figure follows what is known as an "Esterka story".
[2] In the nineteenth century, a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates.