Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by

Book
Queer theory and the Jewish question
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 0231508956 9780231508957 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing-outing-"queer Jews" as it is in exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of each other during the last two hundred years.

Journeys & arrivals : on being gay and Jewish
Author:
ISBN: 0571198821 Year: 1996 Publisher: Boston : Faber and Faber,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The elusive embrace : desire and the riddle of identity
Author:
ISBN: 0375706976 9780375706974 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Vintage books,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead. Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where "desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self. The book that Hilton Als calls "equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself, '" The Elusive Embrace marks a dazzling literary debut."--

Queer theory and the Jewish question
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 0231113749 0231113757 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing--outing--"queer Jews" as it is in exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of each other during the last two hundred years." --

Queer Jews
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0415931673 1317795040 1315811278 1317795059 9781317795049 9781317795056 9781315811277 0415931665 9780415931663 9780415931670 0415941288 9780415941280 041594127X 9781317795032 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

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 Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive.


Book
Three jewish journeys through an anthropologist's lens : from Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the closet to the bimah
Author:
ISBN: 1618110365 9781618110367 1934843369 9781934843369 9781934843369 Year: 2009 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist's Lens provides an overview of the ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist over the course of his career. It presents Moshe Shokeid's explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life, which he closely observed in three major arenas of contemporary Jewish life: Moroccan Jews who immigrated from the Atlas Mountains to become farmers in the semi-arid Negev fields; Israeli-born citizens who left their homes to start a new life in America; and, finally, American gay Jews who chose to preserve their cultural heritage and remain involved in synagogue life as part of the mosaic of New York Jews. The panoramic view of Shokeid's ethnographic journeys ends with a discussion of his methods of research and his personal experiences as a participant observer among his fellow Jews in their unique paths to promote their social and spiritual aspirations.

Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by