Tales of the Immigrant City – HESTER STREET

HESTER STREET
Joan Micklin Silver, 1975, 89 min
With Carole Kane, Steven Keats

Co-sponsors: BAiP, LiLY, W. 90s Neighborhood Assn., W. 102nd & 103rd Streets Block Assn., W. 104th St. Block Assn.

About the film:

In this newly restored independent classic adapted from Abraham Cahan 1896 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, a newly arrived Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe struggles to find her footing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side as her husband embraces American life with gusto. Shot in evocative black and white, Hester Street captures the tension between old traditions and new dreams in turn-of-the-century New York. Carol Kane earned an Academy Award nomination for her powerful performance as Gitl, a woman forging her own path in the face of cultural displacement and personal upheaval.

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$10/seniors & students
$8/Community partner with code

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