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yenta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Yenta or
Yente (Yiddish: יענטע) is a
Yiddish woman's
given name. It is a
variant form of the name Yentl...
- daughters, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava,
Shprintze and Bielke,
about their tasks.
Yente, the
village matchmaker,
arrives to tell
Golde that
Lazar Wolf, the wealthy...
- English-language productions. She is most
widely known for her role as
Yente the
Matchmaker in the 1971
musical film
Fiddler on the Roof.
Picon was born...
-
Yente Serdatzky (also
Serdatsky and Sardatsky; Yiddish: יענטע סערדאַצקי;
September 15, 1877 – May 1, 1962) was a Russian-born
American Yiddish-language...
- and his
family in
exchange for
Perchik tutoring his daughters.
Through Yente the matchmaker,
Tevye arranges for his
eldest daughter, Tzeitel, to marry...
- Year
First published Reprinted/collected
Notes Yente 2021 Tokarczuk, Olga (20
September 2021). "
Yente". The New Yorker. 97 (29).
Translated by Croft,...
- the 1957
premiere of
Herman Wouk's Nature's Way at the
Coronet Theatre,
Yente the
Matchmaker in the 1964
premiere of
Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway....
-
revival of
Fiddler on the Roof at the
Playhouse Theatre,
playing the role of
Yente,
alongside Maria Friedman taking on the role of Golde,
until the production's...
- cast of the
National Yiddish Theatre's
production of
Fidler Afn Dakh as
Yente the matchmaker. In 2020,
Hoffman appeared as
Nicky in the
musical podcast...
- cf. German: Jacke; OED)
Yenta (variants:
yente, yentl): A
talkative woman; a gossip; a
scold (יענטע,
yente, from a
given name; OED, MW) Yiddish: The...
