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Yentl is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Yanev [ 3 ] in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Reb Mendel (“Papa”), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. Yentl refuses to be married off to a man. After the death of her father, Yentl decides to cut ...
Yentl is the journey of a young woman who defies the Jewish Orthodox tradition that forbids females from studying religious scripture. When her father dies, Yentl emancipates herself by dressing in male guise, determined to live as a man to continue her studies. Religion, gender, sexual politics, and traditional Yiddish culture collide as Yentl ...
- Theatre > Theatre, Adults Aged 16+
- October 17, 2024
Feb 25, 2009 · Based on Singer’s “Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy,” the film revolves around Yentl (Streisand), who lives in Europe at the turn of the 19th century and wants to be a scholar and study the Torah. But ...
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The story of Yentl, a young woman in prewar Eastern Europe who is set adrift after her father’s death and decides to pursue her illicit love of learning (her “soul thirsted to study Torah ...
Jan 11, 2018 · In Barbra Streisand’s directorial debut Yentl, the multi-talented star (who wrote, directed, and produced the film) plays the bright, headstrong title character, a Jewish woman living in early ...
- Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring the legend that is Barbra Streisand, Yentl is an inspiring story about a Jewish woman with a passion for learning, masquerading as a man to enter religious training. The ending of the film sees Streisand leaving Europe on a boat to the USA with hopes to lead a life with more freedom. In the final scene that gives us the famous song ‘Papa, watch ...
But the middle 100 minutes of the movie are charming and moving and surprisingly interesting. A lot of the charm comes from the cheerful high energy of the actors, not only Streisand (who gives her best performance) but also Mandy Patinkin, as her long-suffering roommate, and Amy Irving, as the girl Patinkin loves and Streisand marries.
