Eastern Europe, 1904. A Jewish woman, Yentl, has a thirst for knowledge but is prohibited from learning due to the restrictions of her religion. When her father dies, she sets off to increase her ...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Streisand cast Persoff in Yentl. Decades after working on the film, Persoff recalled his experience meeting with Streisand before beginning work on Yentl.

Like its audacious heroine, the new stage version of “Yentl” gets itself into a bit ... inauthentic out of the actors’ mouths, the cast by and large agreeably populates the Nobel Prize ...

Barbra Streisand has revealed her co-star Mandy Patinkin made her life 'miserable' during filming for her famous film Yentl. The pair starred as students in the 1983 film who meet at a yeshiva [a ...

Nehemiah Persoff, a prolific character actor known for his roles in “The Twilight Zone,” “Yentl” and countless ... by Charles Laughton and cast in his production of “Galileo.” ...

Nehemiah Persoff, best known for his roles in Yentl and Some Like It Hot ... He was the final surviving member of the cast. Early in his career he also appeared in the likes of Alfred Hitchcock ...

in her film “Yentl,” she was singing it to Nehemiah ... The following year, Persoff was cast in Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” staged by Lee Strasberg as a vehicle for screen star John Garfield ...