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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Joan Micklin Silver
- 1975-10-15
Dealing with themes of assimilation, this film, set in the early 1900s, focuses on the experiences of an immigrant family in New York City. Gitl (Carol Kane) has just arrived in America from ...
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- Joan Micklin Silver
- PG
- Steven Keats
Oct 6, 2021 · Performed in a mix of English and Yiddish, “Hester Street” was Mickin Silver’s first feature film. It follows a down-on-his-luck playboy, Yaakov (Steven Keats, who changed his Polish Jewish...
Summaries. In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating. In 1896, Russian Jew Yankel Bogovnik has been in the United States for three years and settled where many of his background have: Hester Street, on New York City's Lower East Side.
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Hester Street (1975) Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 1896: Eastern Europeans have emigrated from the Old Country to settle into a new life among the largest Jewish population in the U.S. This sets the scene for Abraham Cahan’s novella Yekl, and became the story that would inspire Joan Micklin Silver to embark on her filmmaking debut.
