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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 ...
Feb 27, 2024 · Yentl’s fate is the fate of characters in Singer’s world in general. Singer’s life, neatly bifurcated by the Holocaust, had no happy endings. It’s no great surprise that his characters get few happy endings, either, except the dignity of a good death. Yentl’s magic is the magic of Singer’s writing in general.
To give you a notion of the special magic of “Yentl,” I’d like to start with the following complicated situation: Yentl, a young Jewish girl, wants to be a scholar. But girls are not permitted to study books. So she disguises herself as a boy, and is accepted by a community of scholars. She falls in love with one of them. He thinks she is ...
Oct 27, 2019 · Yentl. Barbra Streisand (1983) In Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story ‘Yentl the Yeshiva Boy’, the title character is determined to study Talmud – in defiance of Jewish custom and practice, which restricts Talmudic education and learning to men. Her widowed rabbi father allows Yentl to discuss and debate Jewish theology with him, within ...
- Pt. I: The Runaway
- Pt. II: The Obvious
- Pt. III: The Film
- Part IV: Fathers and Blank Slates
- Part V: Running Toward
When I was nine, I ran away from home. The reason? Treason. My dad had insisted I come inside to read because he was worried that the backyard weeds and thorny flowers I sat in would tear up my ankles. I methodically grabbed my ugliest coat, a flashlight, my favorite book (Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer), a water bottle which I figured I could fill at...
Hi, I’m Shayna. I use she and they pronouns, and recently I’ve started to sneak he pronouns into the public sphere. Last year, I asked my partner if they would start using the term “boyfriend” in addition to “girlfriend.” I’m a bisexual, Jewish, genderqueer dyke, and I love occupying those neuroses. I also mine my identifying features to the high h...
When I was nine, Yentl lived in my periphery. The plot of the 1983 “movie with music” is simple: in 1900s Poland, a young Jewish woman desires to study the Talmud so greatly that she runs away from home after her father dies, disguises herself as a boy, becomes the best student of the yeshiva, and marries another woman (hooray!) in order to please ...
Before his passing, Yentl’s father (Nehemiah Persoff) castigates himself for never having taught Yentl how to be a woman. Between his negligence and lenience in teaching her to discuss the Torah, and her mother’s absence, he says, she’ll never have a husband. Who will take care of her? Later in the film, Yentl expresses a similar, explicit thought ...
My roommate often jokes that they would rather not have anyone perceive them at all, much less assign them a value based on a perception of their gender. I wouldn’t go quite so far — as a Leo (I’m going to regret this), I fairly feed off being perceived. But I have come to realize something: no one will ever truly know my gender. I could (and have)...
The Yentl of the play is a young woman who is transformed into an androgynous figure, whereas the Yentl of the film is an androgyne who becomes at last—in the guise of Barbra Streisand—a ...
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Jun 14, 2021 · Yentl is a huge deal to Jewish women who believe in feminism and halakhic egalitarianism. First published in 1962 in Yiddish as a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer called “Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy,” the tale of a Jewish woman who takes on a male persona to study became the 1975 play Yentl co-written by Singer and Leah Napolin, and later the 1983 film adaptation by Barbra Streisand and ...
