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Joan Micklin Silver, Director of 'Hester Street' and 'Crossing Delancey,' Dies at 85
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hollywoodreporter.comJoan Micklin Silver, the pioneering independent female director behind Hester Street and Crossing Delancey, among many other titles, who fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen, has died.
She was 85. Silver died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan of vascular dementia, Silver's daughter, Claudia, told The New York Times.
Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska to Russian Jewish parents, Silver left home to attend Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Not long after her graduation in 1956, Silver married the son of a Cleveland-based Zionist rabbi, Raphael D. Silver, and the couple settled in Cleveland, where Silver taught music classes and wrote plays as she worked to raise three children.
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