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