Gender-bending Streisand film

• Streisand film: 1983
• Film with the only female Golden Globe winner for Best Director
• Movie for which Streisand won the Best Director Golden Globe
• Tovah Feldshuh Broadway role
• Film with the Oscar-nominated song "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
• "Boy" in a Isaac Bashevis Singer story
• Barbra Streisand movie in which she sings "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
• Singer heroine
• She lived most of her life as a male named Anshel

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Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer . Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," it centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father. When he dies, she ...