Queer Jews

Queer Jews / edited by David Shneer & Caryn Aviv.

Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Je...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shneer, David, 1972-, Aviv, Caryn, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2002]
Subjects:
Jewish gay people > United States.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Judaism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Judaism
Jewish gays
Homosexualität
Judentum
United States
Juden.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: heeding Isaiah's call / David Shneer and Caryn Aviv
  • Creating our histories: a look back at Twice Blessed / Avi Rose and Christie Balka
  • How a "liberationist" Fem understands being a queer Jew, or how taking advice from a prophet, even a Jewish one, is (Un)transformative / Joan Nestle
  • The writing on the wall: on being a Jewish writer, a Lesbian Writer, and a Jewish Lexbian writer / Leslea Newman
  • A gay Orthodox Rabbi / Steve Greenberg
  • Jewish Dyke baby-making / Hadar Dubowsky
  • A young man from Chelm: or a nontraditionally gendered Hebrew school teacher tells all / Jaron Kanegson
  • Queer naked Seder and other newish Jewish traditions/ Jill Nagle
  • Whose side are you on?: transgender at the wester wall / TJ Michels and Ali Cannon
  • In the Aron Kodesh: wrestling with the Rabbinic closet / Anonymous
  • Kol Sason v'Kol Simcha, Kol Kalah v'Kol Kalah: same gender weddings and spiritual renewal / Jane Rachel Litman
  • Without standing down: the first queer Jewish street protest /Jonathan Krasner
  • Out at school : a queer Jewish education / David Shneer
  • Breaking ground: a traditional Jewish lesbian wedding / Inbal Kashtan
  • Remaking family: Canadian Jews, sexuality, and relationships / Oscar Wolfman
  • Remembering the stranger: identity, community, and same-sex marriage / Joanne Cohen
  • Lost Jewish (Male) souls: a midrash on Angels in America and The Producers / Jyl Lynn Felma
  • Outing the archives: from the celluloid closet to the Isle of Klezbos / Eve Sicular
  • Trembling on the road: a Simcha diary / Sandi Simcha Dubowski
  • Israeli gays and lesbians encounter Zionism / Ruti Kadish
  • All points bulletin: Jewish dykes adopting children / Marla Brettschneider
  • "Next year in freedom!" : taking our Seder to the streets / Jo Hirshmann and Elizabeth Wilson.

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