Hester Street is a 1975 film which tells the story of an immigrant Jewish woman who clings to the "old ways" while her husband and son succumb to the American culture in turn-of-the-century New York City. It stars Carol Kane, Steven Keats[?] and Paul Freedman[?].
... the uses of adversity, advice for submission
to authority, warnings against temptation and how
to resist it, reflections about death and the judgment,
meditations ...