Steven Keats plays a Russian emigrant who takes pride in his transformation into a true Yankee in the United States, despite the fact that the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 1800s, is almost entirely populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife (Carol Kane) finally arrives in the New World, she has a lot to learn. This creates the tension that propels the film along, despite the film's generally light tone.
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Steven Keats plays a Russian emigrant who takes pride in his transformation into a true Yankee in the United States, despite the fact that the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 1800s, is almost entirely populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife (Carol Kane) finally arrives in the New World, she has a lot to learn. This creates the tension that propels the film along, despite the film's generally light tone.
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