By: Ardis E. Parshall - September 30, 2011 Do you remember Yentl, the 1983 movie with Barbra Streisand as the Eastern European Jewish girl of the early 20th century, who so craves the bookish education that is forbidden to her that she cuts her hair and masquerades as a boy in order to register in a distant yeshiva? While she is still at home in her shtetl, keeping house for her rabbi father, she crosses through a marketplace just a...
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