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No. 21: Yentl

Returning to the source

by
Alana Newhouse
December 08, 2011
(Corbis)
(Corbis)

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.