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Joan Micklin Silver obituary Ryan Gilbey © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy A sensitivity to cultural differences, a playful looseness with actors, and a nose for the churn and thrust of interpersonal relationships were among the characteristics of the film-maker Joan Micklin Silver, who has died aged 85 of vascular dementia. She was 40 when she made her debut with Hester Street (1975), the story of a young Russian-Jewish woman arriving in late-19th-c...

Everett The pioneering writer-director fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen at a time when some of her projects were considered an "ethnic oddity," she has said. Joan 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, Silvers daughter, Claudia, told Born...