1st Edition
Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe Iridescently Yours
Introduction: Heritagization and Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage
Sacha Kagan and Miranda Crowdus
1. Queeridescently Yours: Cultural Iridescence and the Queering of Jewish Heritage
Sacha Kagan
2. Queering the Synagogue: A Case Study
Elli Tikvah Sarah
3. Queerly Jewish – Contemporary Queer(ing) Appropriations of Jewish Heritage in Europe
Sacha Kagan
4. Sonic Queering Practices: Sounding Jewishness in Dead Spaces
Miranda Crowdus
5. “The Thirteenth Century Happened Only Yesterday”: Queering Time in Accounts of Medieval English Jewish heritage
Yulia Egorova
6. (Un)settling Pilgrimages: Local European and Canadian-Jewish Encounters with Jewish Cultural Heritage
Miranda Crowdus
7. How To: Never Forget: Holocaust Testimony in the Platform Age, Queering Heritage, Affective Platforms, and the Labor of Memory
Kathryn Agnes Huether
Conclusion
Miranda Crowdus and Sacha Kagan
Biography
Sacha Kagan is a “Privatdozent” at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany). Kagan’s research interests lie at the intersection of the sociology of the arts, sustainability research, queer studies, and transdisciplinarity. He was a research associate at the Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim (Germany), from 2022 to 2025 as the Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project “Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe”. Author of 80 publications and director of three documentary films, he previously edited the book Culture and Sustainable Development in the City (2023).
Miranda Crowdus is Associate Professor at the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University, where she also holds the Research Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies. Crowdus’ research interests lie at the intersection of ethnomusicology and Jewish studies. She was a research associate at the European Centre for Jewish Music in Hanover, Germany, from 2016 to 2021. Her book Hip Hop in Urban Borderlands was published in 2019 and she has recently published interdisciplinary research at the intersections of Jewish studies, sound studies, music, and heritage in articles such as “Jewish Music Pedagogies and Cultural Sustainability: Case Studies from Lower Saxony and Quebec” (2023) and “ ‘Yellow Bar Mitzvah’: Mobilizations of Gangsta Rap as Futures Oriented, Agential Jewish Heritage in Germany” (2025).
