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As Anshel, she quickly earns the respect of her fellow students through her keen intellect and passion for debate. She befriends a brilliant and charismatic student named Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin). The story grows increasingly complex as a series of emotional entanglements develop:

The tension of maintaining a dual life eventually becomes unbearable. Yentl reveals her true identity to a stunned Avigdor, showing him that she is the woman he has grown to love as a "friend". Although Avigdor asks her to marry him as a woman, Yentl realizes that doing so would force her back into the very submissive role she sought to escape. Yentl 1983 Cut Scenes, Musical Numbers, Unreleased

In 1904 Eastern Europe, a young Ashkenazi Jewish woman named Yentl Mendel (Barbra Streisand) defies the strict social and religious codes of her Polish shtetl. While women are forbidden from studying sacred texts, Yentl harbors a deep passion for the Talmud and Torah, which she secretly studies under her father’s guidance. The Transformation