With affection and wit, Raphael Soyer shows his sister Rebecca and twin brother Moses dancing to the accompaniment of a harmonica played by his youngest brother Israel. His parents sit and observe the Americanization of their children, his mother putting aside her Yiddish newspaper for a moment to watch. A framed photograph of his grandparents hanging on the wall behind them emphasizes the distance traveled, both symbolically and geographically, between the old world and the new.