No. 21: Yentl
Returning to the source
December 08, 2011
1983, dir. Barbra Streisand. In this adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, Barbra Streisand plays a young Jewish girl who disguises herself as a man so she can study Talmud in a yeshiva. The preceding may be the most Jewish sentence ever written.
Alana Newhouse is the editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine.