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HESTER STREET
One of the Best! This movie is on TWM's short list of the best movies to supplement classes in United States History, High School Level.
SUBJECTS — U.S./Diversity & 1865 - 1913; Religions/Judaism;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Marriage; Families in Crisis;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Responsibility; Trustworthiness.
Age: 10+; MPAA Rating: PG; Drama; 1975; 89 minutes; Color.
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The scene is New York City's Lower East Side. The year is 1896. A Russian Jewish immigrant has abandoned the traditions of Eastern European Orthodox Jewry. To look more like an American he has cut off his ear locks and shaved his beard. Then he is summoned to Ellis Island to pick up his wife and young son who have followed him from the old country. Will she be able to assimilate fast enough to satisfy her husband? Does she want to?
Hester Street shows life in the Jewish sections of New York City's Lower East Side during the years of massive immigration from Eastern Europe. It tells the story of a Jewish family during that period and shows some of the strains that emigration placed upon husbands and wives.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to Hester Street will help teachers and parents use this film to supplement curriculum in U.S. history.
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More than two million Eastern European and Russian Jews
immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924. This
influx of people was caused not so much by increased opportunity in the
United States as by conditions in Europe, including: violent pogroms, laws restricting Jewish
employment, denial of education, restriction on areas of settlement and the threat of long military conscription. See, for example
Fiddler on the Roof. In 1924 Congress passed severe restrictions on immigration from Eastern Europe.
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