Joan Micklin Silver couldn't interest a Hollywood studio in doing a film about early Eastern European immigrants to New York, which would incorporate some Yiddish. So she wrote, directed and co-produced Hester Street (1975) herself.
Institution: Private collection
Jewish Women's Archive. "Silver-Joan - still image." (Viewed on May 19, 2013) <http://jwa.org/media/silver-joan-still-image>.
