Hester Street

1975

English

7.0

♡ 4

81%

manhattan, new york city

Romance

russian emigre

woman director

Joan Micklin Silver Director

Ed Crowley as Inspector

Joanna Merlin as Jake's Landlady

Philip Sterling as Mr. Lipman

Anna Berger as Poultry Woman

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. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.