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Through the door of life : a Jewish journey between genders
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ISBN: 1280128372 9786613532251 0299287335 9780299287337 9781280128370 0299287300 9780299287306 Year: 2012 Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,

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Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature
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ISBN: 9780520382053 0520382056 9780520382060 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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"Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law"--


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The Soul of the Stranger : Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
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ISBN: 1512602949 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brandeis University Press


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Queer judaism : LGBT activism and the remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel
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ISBN: 9781479810017 9781479810031 9781479810055 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, N.Y. New York University Press

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"Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But within the span of about a decade and a half, Orthodox LGBT people have forged social circles and communities and become much more visible. This has been a remarkable shift in a relatively short time span. Queer Judaism offers the compelling story of how Jewish LGBT persons in Israel created an effective social movement. Drawing on more than 120 interviews, Orit Avishai illustrates how LGBT Jews accomplished this radical change. She makes the case that it has taken multiple approaches to achieve recognition within the community, ranging from political activism to more personal interactions with religious leaders and community members, to simply creating spaces to go about their everyday lives. Orthodox LGBT Jews have drawn from their lived experiences as well as Jewish traditions, symbols, and mythologies to build this movement, motivated to embrace their sexual identity not in spite of, but rather because of, their commitment to Jewish scripture, tradition, and way of life. Unique and timely, Queer Judaism challenges popular conceptions of how LGBT people interact and identify with conservative communities of faith."--Page 4 of cover.

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