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Hester Street (1975)

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Hester Street (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Is This Poland?

Hester Street (1975) -- (Movie Clip) For What Purpose?

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Hester Street (1975)

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Hester Street (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Is This Poland? Lower East Side, 1896, Polish immigrants Jake (Steven Keats), Mamie (Dorrie Kavanugh), Joe (Stephen Strimpell) and Fanny (Lauren Frost) converse and make fun of a new arrival, opening Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street, 1975.

Hester Street (1975) -- (Movie Clip) For What Purpose? Heretofore playboy Polish immigrant Jake (Steven Keats) arrives at Ellis Island to collect his wife Gitl (Carol Kane, in her Academy Award-nominated role) and son (Paul Freedman), in Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street, 1975.

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