Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Joan Micklin Silver made [Hester Street] with a script she adapted from a story by Abraham Cahan. It is utterly sincere and utterly abysmal. It's shot in po...
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Critical Essay by Jill Forbes
The great American melting pot shows a low profile in Hester Street. The time-honoured themes—progress, assimilation, education—are deployed with taste, di...
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Critical Essay by Geoff Brown
[Hester Street] takes the bull by the horns, dealing solely … with life on New York's Lower East Side in 1896.
Its proportions and virtues are modest: i...
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Critical Essay by Laurence Green
[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 ...
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Critical Essay by Sonya Michel
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 gen...
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Saturday
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 N...
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Saturday
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. ...
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In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—cro...
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In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—cro...
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Preaching not from his usual podium last week, Father Fabian Grifone harked back to a time when the yearly feast of San Gennaro was about family and tradition.
And gambling—“mild gambl...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Events for March 31-April 2, 2007
