Barbra Streisand

The immensely talented trailblazer Barbra Streisand has done it all. She co-directed and co-produced Yentl (1983), in which she both acted and sang in the star role as a young woman who so loved studying the Talmud that she assumed a male identity in order to attend a yeshivah.

Institution: American Jewish Archives.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Barbra Streisand." (Viewed on October 3, 2023) <https://jwa.org/media/film-us-7-still-image>.

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