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Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change book cover

1st Edition

Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change

Edited By Marla Brettschneider Copyright 2023
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge
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Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change is the first major work in Jewish lesbian studies in more than a decade. Once a vibrant field, few works in Jewish queer studies in recent years have looked at the experiences of, and scholarship on, Jewish women, feminists, and those identified as lesbians. Correcting a twenty-first century shift away from explicitly feminist investigations in... Read more

1. Introduction

Marla Brettschneider

2. Legible lesbian lines: The bilingual poetry of Irena Klepfisz

Zohar Weiman-Kelman

3. Portrayals of the internal God among Ashkenazi Jewish Orthodox lesbians in Israel

Graciela Spector-Bitan

4. Holding on to history and each other: The unexpected LGBTQ legacy of a Czech Holocaust survivor and a Torah scroll from her hometown

Sylvia Sukop

5. On my own terms

Carol Conaway

6. Narrow bridges: Jewish lesbian feminism, identity politics, and the “hard ground” of alliance

Brooke Lober

7. Alef and Shem: Original artwork

Sharon Gershoni

8. Wedding the dragon: The powerful feminine as seen in Jewish women’s dreams

Rabbi Jill Hammer

Biography

Marla Brettschneider is prolific and award-winning author and Professor of Political Theory with a joint appointment in Women’s and Genders Studies and Political Science at the University of New Hampshire, USA where she has chaired both of her departments and founded Queer Studies, Social Justice Leadership Studies, and a graduate program in Feminist Studies.

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