Hester Street_Film Adaptation of Cahan's novella Yekl

This is another iconic scene of "arrival"--in this case, the Jewish wife and boy join the husband and father in America. The scene points to the distance between the newly-arrived characters and the father--Yekl, formerly known as Yankel, who speaks English (albeit broken) and who dresses in a suit, had his beard and sidelocks shaved, and presents himself as an American. He would be Reb Smolinsky's opposite.

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The next scene presents the opposite of Yenkl, a pious man who reads the Torah and is a very religious man (but who, unlike Reb Smolinsky, works for a living in a sweatshop). The characters in this scene speak Yiddish (when they don't speak English, that is).