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Hester Street

Release Date:October 19, 1975

Running Time:90 min

Genres:Drama, Romance

Director

Cast

Steven Keats Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh Doris Roberts Stephen Strimpell Lauren Friedman Paul Freedman Martin Garner Leib Lensky Zane Lasky Zvee Scooler

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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