Miriam Isaacs is the Yiddish language coach for the play "Hester Street," a drama set in the world of Jewish immigrant life in New York.

Joan Micklin Silver's 1975 Oscar-nominated film, "Hester Street," based on Abraham Cahan's novella, captures the Jewish immigrant experience.

The stage adaptation of the film "Hester Street" was initially met with skepticism by director Joan Micklin Silver in 2015 but eventually was embraced and brought to life as a Yiddish and English play with music, premiering at Theater J in Washington, D.C. in March 2024.

This article lists nine classic Jewish New York movies that are available to stream.