Hester Street

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

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  Steven Keats

  Jake
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  Carol Kane

  Gitl
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  Doris Roberts

  Mrs. Kavarsky
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  Stephen Strimpell

  Joe Peltner
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  Martin Garner

  Boss
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  Zvee Scooler

  Rabbi
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  Eda Reiss Merin

  Rabbi's Wife
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  Robert Lesser

  Lawyer
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  Joanna Merlin

  Jake's Landlady
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  Philip Sterling

  Mr. Lipman