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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 ...
- 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)...
He thinks she is a boy. He is in love with a local girl. The girl’s father will not let him marry her. So he convinces Yentl to marry his girlfriend, so that at least he can visit the two people he cares for most deeply. (The girlfriend, remember, thinks Yentl is a boy.) Yentl and the girl are wed. At first Yentl manages to disguise her true sex.
Nov 17, 2023 · Here at Hey Alma, we published a style retrospective celebrating her iconic fashion over the decades. And tomorrow, Nov. 18, her gender-bending masterpiece film “Yentl” turns 40. While discussing Babs in depth in our Hey Alma office Slack, as you do, the entire team realized something shocking: None of us had ever actually seen “Yentl.”.
Feb 13, 2019 · In Yentl, she has two romantic partners, a man and a woman, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving, each of whom enriches and elevates Streisand’s work, and helps ground what could have been an imitation Shakespearean comedy of gender confusion à la Twelfth Night into an emotionally leveling melodrama. Yentl (Barbra Streisand, 1983)
Yentl: Directed by Barbra Streisand. With Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff. A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
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Parents need to know that because the basic plot involves a teen girl disguised as a young man, there are numerous scenes that place Yentl in embarrassing and uncomfortable situations, some of them with sexual overtones (i.e., Yentl being in the presence of several young men as they strip and jump naked into a pond).
