The Cafeteria

Episode aired Feb 21, 1984
52m

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8.5/10

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Comedy Drama Romance Sci-Fi

Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.

Director
- Amram Nowak
Writers
- Ernest Kinoy
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

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Director
- Amram Nowak
Writers
- Ernest Kinoy
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Stars

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Trivia
The last TV project for Howard Da Silva.

Goofs
Aaron talks about the cafeteria as located on Broadway, but it is clearly located on Seventh Avenue.

Quotes
Aaron: There are synagogues on almost every block. tiny ones on the side streets, large temples on the Avenue. Over the years I have spoken in most of them. I also know the funeral parlors. Sometimes I imagine they're a kind of cafeteria where one can get a quick eulogy or kaddish on the way to eternity.

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References Beach Party (1963)

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10/10

Bittersweet story of fantasy and tradition, set in New York City.

A very poignant story centered around a cafeteria on the upper west side of Manhattan, where the elders of the Jewish community meet each day. It might also be called an "almost-love story", a narration of the brief encounters of the two main characters: Aaron, a writer and author; and Esther, a factory worker who lives with her aged father, the both of them survivors from the Nazi labor camps of World War II. As with virtually all of Isaac Bashevis Singer's works, it draws heavily on his own Polish background; strong narrative, a passion for life and tradition.