Movie Settings Database

Hester Street

Where:

New York

When:

The 1890s

Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who 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.

Released in 1975 — 90 minutes

Genres:

Drama Romance

Languages:

English Yiddish