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...dons male garb and enrolls in a yeshiva, a school for rabbinical studies. Assuming the name of Anshul, she becomes increasingly fond of her fellow student Avigdor (John V. Shea). The sundering of a marriage contract has left Avigdor desolate at the loss of a comely local girl named Hadass (Lynn Ann Leveridge). Avigdor conceives the idea that if he cannot have Hadass, Anshul shall. Anshul/Yentl goes through with the marriage, and she manages to keep it deceptively intact, though Jehovah alone knows quite...
...access of love for both Avigdor and Hadass, Yentl reveals to Avigdor that she is not a man and files a bill of divorcement so that her two dearest friends may marry. Even for a fable, that is a little too fabulous. Shakespeare was able to get away with the man-woman mistaken identity gambit because he imbued it with humor, poetry and a sly fencing of the sexes. But that is not the case here, where the prevailing mood is one of folkish piety...