DVD
Hester Street
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Performers
Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Stephen Strimpell.
Publication Information
[United States] : Scorpion Releasing, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
Series
Summary
Gitl is a young Jewish woman who comes to America in the 1890s, only to discover that her husband, Jake, has given up the ways of the old country and taken up with a new girlfriend, and a new life.
Notes
Based on the novel "Yekl : a tale of the New York ghetto" by Abraham Cahan.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Subjects
- Jews > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Married people > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States > Drama.
- Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Man-woman relationships > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Americanization > Drama.
- Adultery > Drama.
- New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Drama.
- New York (State) > History > 19th century > Drama.
- Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951 > Film adaptations.