Release date: 6 January 1984
Stars:
Mandy Patinkin
(Avigdor),
Kerry Shale
(Yeshiva Student),
Lynda Baron
(Peshe),
David de Keyser
(Rabbi Zalman),
Miriam Margolyes
(Sarah),
Norma Atallah
(Debra),
Derek Lyons
(Yeshiva Student),
Allan Corduner
(Shimmele),
Teddy Kempner
(Yeshiva Student),
Amy Irving
(Hadass),
Nehemiah Persoff
(Reb Mendel 'Papa'),
Steven Hill
(Reb Alter Vishkower),
Doreen Mantle
(Mrs. Shaemen),
Barbra Streisand
(Yentl),
Bernard Spear
(Tailor),
Jack Lynn
(Bookseller),
Mary Henry
(Mrs. Jacobs),
Peter Whitman
(Yeshiva Student),
Ian Sears
(David),
Mark English
(Yeshiva Student),
Robbie Barnett
(Tailor's Assistant),
Jonathan Tafler
(Yeshiva Student),
Anna Tzelniker
(Mrs. Kovner),
Anthony Dean Rubes
(Village Student),
Gary Brown
(Yeshiva Student),
Ruth Goring
(Esther Rachel),
Danny Brainin
(Yeshiva Student),
Frank Baker
(Village Student),
Renata Buser
(Mrs. Shaemen's Daughter)
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Dramatization of "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991); originally published in Yiddish c. 1960, then in English c. 1983. The story: In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days. When her father dies, Yentl is all alone i