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 ...

. Even given the extraordinary production values and generally watchable nature of the film as a whole, the “middle-aged Streisand as a young man” angle adds a layer of unintended comedy that ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Last weekend during my ever growing quarantine movie watchlist, I revisited a film I hadn’t seen or really thought about since I first watched it as a teen: Barbara Streisand’s Yentl (1983).

One is a career retrospective, “Evergreens: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records,” and the other is “Yentl: 40th Anniversary Edition,” which includes a disc’s worth of previously ...

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 ...