"Rediscovering Streisand's Yentl:
From Yiddish Story to the Culture Wars"
Monday, 12-Jun-2006 7:34 PM

Los Angeles residents may be interested in attending a screening of YENTL (since it is not on DVD yet!)

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National Foundation for Jewish Culture and USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life present "Rediscovering Streisand's Yentl: From Yiddish Story to the Culture Wars"
 
a talk by Pamela Nadell, Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University
 
followed by a screening of
 
Yentl
a film by Barbra Streisand
starring Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving
 
In 1983, actress-director Barbra Streisand adapted Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy as a musical film.  Professor Nadell will discuss how the film, although set in Eastern Europe early in the twentieth century, resonated with American Jews then caught up in debates over the second wave of American feminism and its implications for women's right to assume religious leadership.

Sunday, June 25, 2006
2:00pm - Lecture
3:00pm - Screening
 
at the historic
Warner Grand Theater
478 W. 6th Street, San Pedro
Free parking is available on the street and in the cut-through lot on 7th Street.
There are many restaurants nearby.
 
Admission $5 — Reservations Requested
 
For reservations, directions and more information, visit www.usc.edu/casdeninstitute, e-mail casden@usc.edu or call 213/740-3405.  Or click here to purchase tickets on-line.