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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.
Hester Street (1975), director Joan Micklin Silver's evocative love story set in the context of the American Jewish immigrant experience, was crafted on a modest budget of less than $400,000 dollars, but ultimately confounded the major distributors that passed on it as an ethnic niche project after it won mainstream acceptance and garnered a ...
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.
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 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.
4 days ago · Hester Street is an urban planning, design and community development nonprofit working so that neighborhoods are shaped by their people.
