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Hester Street is a 1975 drama film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, and was adapted and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. The film stars Steven Keats and Carol Kane , who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
Oct 15, 1975 · Hester Street: Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. With Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh. In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Oct 6, 2021 · Hester Street is a 1975 film by Joan Micklin Silver that depicts the challenges of assimilation for a Jewish family in 1896 New York. The film, performed in English and Yiddish, has been restored by the Cohen Film Collection and is now playing in select theaters and streaming online.
Hester Street is a street in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It stretches from Essex Street to Centre Street, with a discontinuity between Chrystie Street and Forsyth Street for Sara Delano Roosevelt Park.
Sep 9, 2021 · Restored in 4K in 2020 from the 35mm original negative by the Cohen Film Collection at DuArt Media Services and supervised by Joan Micklin Silver's daughter, Marisa...
Gitl (Carol Kane) has just arrived in America from Russia with her son. She has come to meet her husband, Jake (Steven Keats), who has been in the States for some time and is comfortably settled....
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants.
