[Year of first publication] 1962 (short story) 1975 (play) 1983 (film) [Character(s)] Yentl [Work] "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" Yentl (play) Yentl (film) [Creator] Isaac Bashevis Singer (short story) Singer and Leah Napolin (play) Barbra Streisand (film) [Country of publication] United States [Details] Yentl is a Jewish girl in eastern Europe who disguises herself as a boy so that she can study the Talmud.[76] While in Singer's presentation, Yentl's scholarly desires and physical description are seen as being something of a "freak of nature", in the film adaptation, Streisand presents Yentl's as natural and the restrictions placed by society as unnatural.[77] [Media] 
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