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Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.
Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century presents the rich diversity of Jewish life from perspectives that center lesbian and queer Jewish feminist people and issues. Blending scholarship with poetry, memoir, and other genres, it reopens the field of Jewish lesbian writing that has been largely dormant since the early 2000s. The contributors illustrate the diversity of Jewish lesbian experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres and explore how this experience intersects with Black, Mizrahi, Sephardi, Indigenous, and trans identities. Opening timely new dialogues between the various fields of Jewish, feminist, queer, trans, decolonial, and critical race studies, Jewcy encourages readers both inside and outside the academy to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.
"This volume … makes a deliberate and markedly successful effort to include not just a wide variety of genres, but a very diverse group of contributors in terms of racial, ethnic, Ashkenazi/Sephardi and class backgrounds, which is quite unusual, at least for a Jewishly-focused volume." — Nashim
"Rather than avoiding points of tension, this innovative volume tackles them head on, offering a corrective to exclusionary lesbian/Jewish feminism and giving voice to the diversity of lesbian/Jewish experiences, including race, gender, age, religious background, and more. Brettschneider and her contributors show that lesbian/Jewish feminism can and must be trans inclusive and racially diverse. Recommitting to justice in the broadest sense, the book helps prove the ongoing value of lesbian/Jewish feminism in the twenty-first century." — Zohar Weiman-Kelman, author of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century
Marla Brettschneider
1. Henna Night Dyke
Anonymous
2. Deconstructing the Binary, or Not? On a Discourse of Intersex in Early Rabbinic Literature
Sarra Lev
3. At the Intersection of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and LGBTQ+: The Story of a Community Emerging out of the Margins
Ruben Shimonov and Marielle Tawil
4. ID, Please
Vinny Calvo Prell
5. Chelly Wilson: Lesbian, Holocaust Survivor, Queen of the Deuce
Lauren Hakimi
6. Anniversaries (2018–2021)
Joy Ladin
7. The Sephardic Palimpsests of Emma Lazarus
Leonard Stein
8. Remembering Sinai: A Spoken-Word Midrash
Sabrina Sojourner
9. Life on the Borderlands: Mizrahiut, Transfemininity, and Stateless Diasporas
A. S. Hakkâri
10. Meeting Cicely, or Love and Politics: A Black Jewish Lesbian Memoir
Carol Conaway
11. Leslie Feinberg's Complex Jewish Lesbian Feminism
Marla Brettschneider
12. Postmodern Concepts of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Framework of the Jewish Lesbian
Rona B. Matlow
Contributors
Index