'80s Streisand film

• Gender-bending Streisand title role
• Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Yeshiva Boy"
• Title cross-dresser of film
• Movie directed by and starring Barbra Streisand
• Boy portrayed by Barbra
• 1983 Barbra Streisand musical drama
• She lived most of her life as a male named Anshel
• Story subtitled "The Yeshiva Boy"
• Barbra Streisand movie in which she sings "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"

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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 ...