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Rainbow Jews : Jewish and gay identity in the performing arts
- Title
- Rainbow Jews : Jewish and gay identity in the performing arts / Jonathan C. Friedman.
- Author
- Friedman, Jonathan C., 1966-
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- x, 203 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of numerous American and Israeli plays and films, Jonathan Friedman evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Homophobia and tolerance in Judaism -- Ch. 2. Jews, homosexuality, and the performing arts in the United States : sensibilities and tensions, 1890-1969 -- Ch. 3. Gay Jewish voices "come out" : plays and films, 1969-1982 -- Ch. 4. Kaddish : AIDS, Jews, and the performing arts -- Ch. 5. The "great work" continues : gay Jewish representations in American film and theater, 1990 to the present -- Ch. 6. A minority within several minorities : Jewish-Lesbian films and plays -- Ch. 7. Queer in the holy land : gay and lesbian cinema in Israel.
- ISBN
- 9780739114476 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739114483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0739114476 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739114484 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006100110
- OCLC
- OCM76871647
- SCSB-5331048
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries