e-Yentl

Dave Aronson writes:
> On Tue March 2 2004 18:18, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
>  > Or is this just a covert way of saying that we need an e-Yentl?
>
> Nitpick: yenta (meddler/gossiper/busybody, but especially matchmaker), 
> not Yentl (name chosen by girl disguised as boy to get accepted to a 
> yeshiva, in Isaac Bashevis Singer story).
Right you are, but I was actually misremembering
the actual character's name in Fiddler on the Roof
which now that I check imdb was spelled Yente.

Oi.

                Mike