Hester Street
“Goodbye O Lord, I'm Going To America!”
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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Cast
26 people
Steven Keats
Jake
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Death Wish
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Lauren Frost
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Carol Kane
Gitl
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Hunters
Mel Howard
Bernstein
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Dorrie Kavanaugh
Mamie
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Doris Roberts
Mrs. Kavarsky
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Stephen Strimpell
Joe Peltner
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Lauren Friedman
Fanny
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Marshall
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Paul Freedman
Joey
Martin Garner
Boss
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Leib Lensky
Peddler
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Zane Lasky
Greenhorn
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Joan Micklin Silver Director · Abraham Cahan Writer Kenneth Van Sickle Cinematographer
United States release October 19, 1975 · Produced in United States · Languages English, Yiddish
Production
Midwest Films
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Yiddish
Release dates
United States · March 19, 1975
Premiere · USA Film Festival
United States · October 19, 1975
Theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
September 25, 2021 · Premiere · New York Film Festival (4K Restoration)
October 1, 2021 · Limited theatrical · 4K Restoration
Russia
March 27, 1990 · Premiere · The Jewish Film Festival, Moscow
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