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Hester Street

Goodbye O Lord, I'm Going To America!

6.3(44)19751h 30m2

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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Released
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Language
Yiddish
  • manhattan, new york city
  • woman director
  • russian emigre
  • 19th century

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereUSA Film Festival19 Mar 1975
    • TheatricalPGNew York City, New York19 Oct 1975
    • PremiereNew York Film Festival (4K Restoration)25 Sept 2021
    • Theatrical (limited)4K Restoration1 Oct 2021
  • RussiaSU

    • PremiereThe Jewish Film Festival, Moscow27 Mar 1990

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Hester Street was released on 19 October 1975.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/28/2024

    7/10

    There are a couple of really quite poignant performances here from "Jake" (Steven Keats) and his wife "Gitl" (Carol Kane) as together with their young son they try to make a new life in New York after fleeing from Russia. He had arrived some time earlier and had already become exposed to some of the more libertarian aspects of American society by the time his family arrived and though he manages to adopt the ways of …

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