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REVIEW: 'Yentl' offers sweetness and laughter with a modern twist at Asolo Rep

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Jan 22, 2012
The Isaac Bashevis Singer story about “Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy” gets a modern make-over in the Asolo Repertory Theatre production that opened Friday night. Hillary Clemens plays the title role, a woman who masquerades as a man to study the Torah, ...

Not Your Bubbe's Yentl: Jill Sobule's Klezmer/Rock Songs Enliven FL Revival of ...

Playbill.com - Jan 20, 2012
Don't expect Asolo Repertory Theatre's Sarasota staging of the play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer to match the 1983 movie-musical treatment of the source story. That Barbra Streisand vehicle had a score by Marilyn and Alan Bergman and ...

BEST ON AREA STAGES: Jill Sobule on composing music for 'Yentl'

Bradenton Herald - Jan 19, 2012
On stage in Sarasota will be the rarely performed Broadway play by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Leah Napolin. This “Yentl” will feature new music compositions by Jill Sobule. The singer-songwriter with the ardent following penned and performed the ...

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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

by: Isaac Bashevis Singer
The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

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Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

by: Charles Patterson
ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson, Ph.D., describes disturbing parallels between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The title is taken from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, himself a vegetarian: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."

The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album

by: Ilan Stavans

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Yentl the Yeshiva Boy

by: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Recognizing that Yentyl seems to have the soul and disposition of a man, her father studies the Torah and other holy books with her. When he dies, Yentyl feels that she no longer has a reason to remain in the village, and so, late one night, she cuts off her hair, dresses as a young man, and sets out to find a yeshiva where she can continue her studies and live secretly as a man.

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