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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Hester Street Information
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 Hester Street may refer to: Hester Street - is a street in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Hester Street - a 1975 film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto and was adapted and directed... 
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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Hampton's Cool Vibes, Sounds Of Hester Street
05/14/1994: 503 words, approx. 2 pages EVONNE COUTROS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-14-1994 HAMPTON'S COOL VIBES, SOUNDS OF HESTER STREET By EVONNE COUTROS Date: 05-14-1994, Saturday Section: LIFESTYLE Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star Column: WHAT'S HOT Hampton at Harms ... summary from source:
The Washington Post Woolly's Hester Of the Streets; Gail Grate Returns to D.C. for 'In the Blood'
12/26/2000: 1,000 words, approx. 3 pages Actress Gail Grate is back. She's rehearsing "In the Blood" with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. The explosive Suzan-Lori Parks play opens Jan. 7 and runs through Feb. 4 at the AFI Theater at the Kennedy Center, Woolly's temporary residence. After charming audiences in... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Events for March 31-April 2, 2007
3/30/2007: 382 words, approx. 1 pagesSaturday 9 a.m. Assemblywoman Ellen Young will host a tax free preparation day for low-income clients at the YWCA, 42-07 Parsons Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. 10 a.m. Rainbow PUSH Coalition of New York will hold a Bridge Building Rally for Justice at the Metropolitan Community... summary from source:
The New York Observer Events for June 9-11, 2007
6/8/2007: 665 words, approx. 2 pagesSaturday 9 a.m. Council member Helen Diane Foster will host their Annual Youth Forum at Bronx Community College’s Colston Hall, University Avenue and West 181st Street, in the Bronx. 11 a.m. Barack Obama supporters will table, flier and go door-to-door to kick off their NYC...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sonya Michel
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Hester Street is the film adaptation of Yekl, A Tale of the Ghetto, a story Abraham Cahan wrote in 1896 about Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. While remaining generally faithful to Cahan's original story, the film director, Joan Macklin Silver, adds dimension to it. She brings the period (the 1890's, when Jewish immigration was at its height) alive in colorful, richly detailed settings, and establishes a complex social context for the story, taking up where Cahan left off. (p. 142) In ge... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Laurence Green
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[The astonishing Hester Street] by independent film maker Joan Micklin Silver is a deeply personal work, based on her own family's ethnic experiences as first generation settlers in New York. But the film derives its real strength from its deliberate understatement—nothing is forced or artificial—and the feeling of total involvement with characters and situations. Pathos and humour are carefully balanced….
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Critical Essay by Jill Forbes
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The great American melting pot shows a low profile in Hester Street. The time-honoured themes—progress, assimilation, education—are deployed with taste, discretion and, above all, humour. This is Joan Micklin Silver's first film, made in black-and-white, with a self-effacing camera, not a zoom, hardly a close-up. It is a quasi-documentary style which allows her actors to slip with ease from English to subtitled Yiddish and exploit the comic vein with a minimum of fuss in such devastatin...
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