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Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society Present
Hester Street and Sweatshop Cinderella
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Only in New York Summer Film Series
Length: 2 hrs 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
Hester Street, 1975. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. With Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard. A beautifully detailed reconstruction of first generation Jewish immigrant life in turn of the century New York with the inherent challenges of assimilating or maintaining traditional ways. From Yekl, a novella by Abraham Cahan. In Yiddish and English. 90 minutes.
Sweatshop Cinderella, 2010. A short film by Suzanne Wasserman about Anzia Yezierska, a Polish immigrant who came to the Lower East Side in 1890 and rose from sweatshops and laundries to Hollywood and a return to New York as an award-winning writer of stories and novels in Yiddish and English. 27 minutes.
The films will be introduced by Suzanne Wasserman, historian, filmmaker and the director of Gotham Center for New York City History.
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