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Gregg Drinkwater is a doctoral candidate in U.S. history and Jewish studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Sienna’s book attempts to set the record straight (as it were) by bringing together and deeply annotating 120 diverse Jewish texts that each shed some light on Jewish LGBTQ lives, Jewish histories of same-sex eroticism, and Jewish experiences of gender transgression.

David Slucki is the author of Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons, released in July 2019 by Wayne State University Press. He is currently an assistant professor in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, and in January will join Monash University as the Loti Smorgon Associate Professor in Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture.

In this groundbreaking study, Lachs draws upon often ignored documents of popular culture (conventionally written off as shund by her predecessors) in order to paint a vivid picture of working class immigrant London at the turn of the 20th century.