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Title:

Hester Street [videorecording] / Midwest Films presents ; directed by Joan Micklin Silver ; produced by Raphael D. Silver ; screenplay by Joan Micklin Silver.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

[Special ed.].

Publisher:

Home Vision Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Cahan, Abraham,--1860-1951--Film and video adaptations.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States--Drama.
Americanization--Drama.
Immigrants--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Silver, Joan Micklin.
Silver, Raphael D.
Howard, Mel.
Kane, Carol, 1952-
Kavanaugh, Dorrie, d. 1983.
Keats, Steven, 1945-1994.
Roberts, Doris, 1925-
Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951. Yekl.
Midwest Film Production, Inc.
Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Mel Howard, Carol Kane, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Stephen Keats, Doris Roberts. Based on Yekl by Abraham Cahan. Videodisc release of the 1975 motion picture. "New digital transfer enhanced for 16:9 televisions."--Container. Special features: audio commentary by Joan Micklin Silver and Raphael Silver; interviews with Joan Micklin Silver and Raphael Silver, Carol Kane and Doris Roberts; excerpt from Heritage, civilization and the Jews; liner notes by Victoria Brownworth and Judith Redding.

Summary:

A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s and discovers that her husband has given up the ways of the old country, gotten a new girlfriend, and started a new life.

ISBN:

9780780029392
0780029399

UPC:

037429200629

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)