Ezra, a Jewish man, in vengeance for the death of his son by the Romans, decides to raise an abducted Roman girl, Lydia, as his own child. Years later, she falls in love with a Roman prince, who pretends to be a Jewish man.

Based on the play Yahudi Ki Ladki by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, Yahudi is a unique piece from Bimal Roy’s body of work. Dilip Gupta’s sharp camerawork, Nabendu Ghose’s tight screenplay, and Shankar-Jaikishan’s music make this tear-jerker an exceptional cinematic achievement from the 1950s.