“queer jews”

Ned Katz’s sensitive new biography of Eve Adams highglights the challenges faced by LGBTQ people in early 20th-century America and raises lingering questions about the role that Judaism and the Jewish community played in Adams' life. In response, Noam Sienna asks some questions that perhaps only Adams could answer.

Dec 13, 2021

In Golan Y. Moskowitz’s engrossing Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, he tells of the fantasy worlds that the beloved children's book writer and illustrator created over his lifetime, initially as a form of self-preservation, a way of surviving a world hostile to overt displays of queerness and Jewishness, and eventually — and rebelliously — as a form of pleasure and self-expression.

Oct 24, 2021

This teaching guide offers discussion questions and classroom activities to use alongside an episode of the feminist Yiddish podcast Vaybertaytsh.

Mar 02, 2020

Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed. 

Mar 01, 2016