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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1975, a largely unknown 23-year-old actor named Carol Kane starred in Joan Micklin Silver’s film Hester Street as Gitl, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant ...

Such terms are not found in most Yiddish dictionaries that you would find on library bookshelves. But when Yiddish scholar and poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath set out to publish the first ...

Years ago, I sat on a panel about the 1975 movie, “Hester Street.” The event was hosted at an Appalachian college where, let’s just say, the tribe of Israel is not over-represented. I came out of ...

Being compared to one of the most enigmatic, fascinating, volatile and dangerous artists of the 16th-century is perhaps not something to which every ultra orthodox Jewish mother of eight aspires to.

The debut film from Joan Micklin Silver, best known for her rom-com “Crossing Delancey,” has been given a 4K restoration. Performed in a mix of English and Yiddish, “Hester Street” was Mickin Silver’s ...