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A Brooklyn venue celebrates the gender-bending legacy of Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’

JL;DR SUMMARY Barbra Streisand's iconic film "Yentl," which explores themes of gender fluidity and Jewish identity, continues to resonate within modern Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureFilmJewish CommunityQueer RepresentationGender IdentityBarbra StreisandIsaac Bashevis SingerLgbtq+YentlDrag Performance

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"And now The Neighborhood, a Brooklyn community center that blends the arts and pop culture with Jewish spirituality, will bring Barbra fans from all walks of life together on Feb. 26 for Papa Can You Hear Me: A Spectacular Screening of Yentl, featuring a performance by Simply Barbra, a Streisand drag impersonator."
Poland
"Yentl, based on a short story and play by the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer, follows a bookish Jewish woman in an early 20th-century shtetl in Poland who dreams of studying Torah."
New South Wales, Australia
"A 2024 Yiddish adaptation of Yentl at the Sydney Opera House leaned into the queerness of the original, which Gottlieb called the most incredible thing Ive ever seen."

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