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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 · Like “Crossing Delancey,” “Hester Street” is a Jewish love story infused with the flavor of the Lower East Side. Performed in a mix of English and Yiddish, “Hester Street”...
Hester Street. 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...
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Aug 6, 2024 · Hester Street is an urban planning, design and community development nonprofit working so that neighborhoods are shaped by their people.
Sep 19, 2011 · Russian Jew Yankel Bogovnik moves to America in 1896, changing his name to Jake and working to bring his wife Gitl and their son across the ocean to join him. But distance brings complications, and when Bogovnik falls in love with another woman, he must choose between his old life and his new one.
Sep 23, 2021 · “Hester Street” covers a lot of ground in its 91-minute run time: marriage and motherhood, Judaism and secularism, and the ways in which women’s experiences echo through time.
