Hester Street (1975)

Carol Kane, Lin Shaye, Doris Roberts, Steven Keats

In 1896, Russian Jew Yankel Bogovnik has been in the United States for three years and settled where many of his background have: Hester Street, on New York City's Lower East Side. He has assimilated to American life - learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is wor