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Yentl Mendel is a girl living in an Ashkenazi shtetl (a small town with a large Jewish population) named Pechev in Poland in the early 20th century. She is secretly instructed in Talmudic Law by her father, a path that is disallowed to women of the time. When her father dies, Yentl makes the decision to cut her hair, take the name of her dead brother Anshel and disguise herself as a boy so she can enter a yeshiva (Jewish religious school). There she becomes friends with her roommate Avigdor, who is engaged to marry a sweet, gentle, and beautiful woman named Hadass.