Overview
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Cast
- Barbra Streisand as Yentl
- Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor
- Amy Irving as Hadass
- Nehemiah Persoff as Rebbe Mendel
- Steven Hill as Reb Alter Vishkower
- Allan Corduner as Shimmele
- Ruth Goring as Esther Rachel
- David de Keyser as Rabbi Zalman
- Bernard Spear as Tailor
- Doreen Mantle as Mrs. Shaemen