Joan Micklin Silver Dies: Barrier-Breaking Film Director For 'Hester Street' And 'Crossing Delancey' Was 85

Joan Micklin Silver, a film director who broke several barriers for female filmmakers, died Thursday at her Manhattan home. She was 85 and her death was attributed to vascular dementia by her daughter. Silver’s 1975 film Hester Street, the story of an immigrant Jewish couple on the Lower East Side of Manhattan set in the […]