Hester Street
$28.50
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2025
Summary
Hester Street: An Immigrant Story on Film
Joan Micklin Silver’s groundbreaking debut film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Reunited with her already-assimilated husband, Gitl finds they now have little in common and she is forced to adjust to a new way of life. Hester Street achi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839028069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839028068 |
| Series: | BFI Film Classics |
| Author: | Julia Wagner |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | BFI Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 134mm x 8mm |
About The Author
Julia Wagner
Julia Wagner is a writer and lecturer based in London, UK, specialising in Jewish film and culture, documentary and Italian cinema. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and has written widely for publications including Sight and Sound and the Jewish Chronicle. She curated the BFI/JW3 archival project Jewish Britain on Film.
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