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Title

Mentsh : on being Jewish and queer / edited by Angela Brown.

Publication

Los Angeles, Calif. : Alyson Books, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Brown, Angela, 1970-

Description

xx, 380 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Tossed between sometimes contradictory cultural imperatives, queer Jews often find themselves struggling to integrate their religious beliefs with their gayness. Regardless of their age or sex, they find that resolving these conflicts is a soul-searching experience, and in this astonishing collection of stories, these experiences are revealed in surprising, poignant, and hilarious ways. More than 30 contributors from around the world offer a staggering perspective on issues of identity, institutions, and culture from the viewpoint of the queer outsider struggling to belong.

Subject

• Homosexuality > Judaism
• Jewish gay men
• Jewish lesbians

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-380).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Growing up and coming out: Israel 90210 / Raphael Simon ; One hundred years of gratitude / Lesl'ea Newman ; Times are changing, reb Tevye / Dan Fishback ; Oh, my Godzilla / Bonnie Kaplan ; On becoming a man / Jeffrey Bernhardt ; What about the children? / Ronnie Sanlo ; Portrait of the artist as a young faygeleh / Adam Seth Rosen ; Coming out at sixty-five / Roy Liebman. -- Family: A letter to my great-grandfather on being Jewish and gay / Warren J. Blumenfeld ; The thing is very close to you / Angel Brown ; The cantor and Carol Channing / Eric Pliner ; Conversion / Chana Wilson ; My big fat Jewish sperm donor / Harlyn Aizley ; The Liberty Theater / Daniel M. Jaffe ; Oy vey, the kids are gay / Beverly Kopf ; O.M. : Ode to the Maccabees / Carol Frischman. -- Relationships, marriage and sex: Creating a little more room under the chuppah / Ina Turpen Fried ; A lesbian intermarriage (or, The date from Gehanna)
• Siobh'an Houston ; Top man / Edward M. Cohen ; From Mayo to mishpucha / Liz Morrison ; Saying kaddish / David May ; In the land of anti-Semites / Simon Sheppard ; Seizing the moment / Davi Cheng ; The "Jews," the "collaborators," and the politics of rimming / Miodrag Kojadinovi'c. -- Finding our place in the world: Da'at / Jay Michaelson ; Good luck in the real world / Shifra Teitelbaum ; Hasidism and drag queens (or, Memoirs of a contrary son) / Bruce Shenitz ; The idea of home / Sara Marcus ; A Jew in the South / Rob Rosen ; Aggrieved / Jill Dolan ; Identity crisis : tales of a wandering Jew / Steven Cooper ; The whole Jewish thing / Bonnie J. Morris. -- Stories from our lives: She koogled me? / Tania Katan ; The letter--and the word / Hinde Ena Burstin ; The chutzpah / Faith Soloway ; My rabbis and myself / Arthur G. Marx ; Mouna in flight / Sue Katz ; Exile / Aaron Hamburger ;
• The great J. (Jewish) Gatsby / David Rosen.

ISBN

1555838502 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004048571

OCLC

• 55535150
• SCSB-11415160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library