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2 unusual facts about Yentl


Deborah Kass

Her My Elvis series speak to gender and ethic identity by replacing Warhol’s Elvis with Barbra Streisand from Yentl: a 1983 film in which Streisand plays a Jewish woman who dresses and lives as a man in order to receive an education in the Talmudic Law.

The Way He Makes Me Feel

The song is featured in the film adaptation of the play Yentl, in which Streisand starred and sang most of the music.


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Joy Shelton

Jonathan Tafler has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC Radio Drama Company and features in the Barbra Streisand film Yentl.

Stanley O'Toole

In 1981, Stanley worked with Barbra Streisand on Yentl, Streisand's directorial debut, though he has no producer credit on the film.


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