Sallah is a classic attempt to portray the life of the "Oriental" immigrants transitioning into the local community of Maabara. Centered around the life of a middle aged European Jew, and his family, it hopes to display the struggles and hardships that they had to over come - with wonderful use of humor and comedy. While addressing several stereotypes about the `Mizrahis' and `Ashkenazis', it also depicts several accounts that contradict these stereotypes and "misconceptions" about the two Jewish communities.

Staged in the mid-1960's the non-European Jews are shown to live a rather substandard life. On the contrary the European Jews, or Ashkanazis, seem to cherish their role as representatives of the British mandate. Even though the movie didn't focus a whole lot on their socio-economic status, one could inevitably rule the "Orientals" as being relatively uneducated and economically constrained. However, in a conversation with `Shabbatti', a...