Julia Wagner is a writer and lecturer based in London, UK, specialising in Jewish film and culture, documentary and Italian cinema. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and has written widely for publications including Sight and Sound and the Jewish Chronicle. She curated the BFI/JW3 archival project Jewish Britain on Film.

• Acknowledgements1. One more problem we DO need: getting Hester Street off the ground2. Evoking the past in visual and spoken language3. Geographic and cinematic movement: Immigration and point of view4. Uncovering: the symbolism of costume and ritual5. Money, freedom and knowledge6. Situating Hester StreetNotesCredits

Julia Wagner’s book is a rigorous monograph that decodes Joan Micklin Silver’s film chapter by chapter. Adopting a contemporary European perspective, Wagner treats the work as a manifesto of early intersectional feminism.

Julia Wagner is a writer and lecturer based in London, UK, specialising in Jewish film and culture, documentary and Italian cinema. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and has written widely for publications including Sight and Sound and the Jewish Chronicle. She curated the BFI/JW3 archival project Jewish Britain on Film.

• Acknowledgements1. One more problem we DO need: getting Hester Street off the ground2. Evoking the past in visual and spoken language3. Geographic and cinematic movement: Immigration and point of view4. Uncovering: the symbolism of costume and ritual5. Money, freedom and knowledge6. Situating Hester StreetNotesCredits

Julia Wagner’s book is a rigorous monograph that decodes Joan Micklin Silver’s film chapter by chapter. Adopting a contemporary European perspective, Wagner treats the work as a manifesto of early intersectional feminism.

Julia Wagner is a writer and lecturer based in London, UK, specialising in Jewish film and culture, documentary and Italian cinema. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and has written widely for publications including Sight and Sound and the Jewish Chronicle. She curated the BFI/JW3 archival project Jewish Britain on Film.

• Acknowledgements1. One more problem we DO need: getting Hester Street off the ground2. Evoking the past in visual and spoken language3. Geographic and cinematic movement: Immigration and point of view4. Uncovering: the symbolism of costume and ritual5. Money, freedom and knowledge6. Situating Hester StreetNotesCredits

Julia Wagner’s book is a rigorous monograph that decodes Joan Micklin Silver’s film chapter by chapter. Adopting a contemporary European perspective, Wagner treats the work as a manifesto of early intersectional feminism.