“queer yiddishkeit”

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Be Yourself! (with a little help): Creating the First Yiddish LGBTQ Youth Guide

Jonathan Branfman and Lili Rosen

Jonathan Branfman and Lili Rosen discuss navigating queer Yiddish vocabulary with Talmudic associations; how to make a Hasidic children's book accessible for many other Yiddish readers as well; and other considerations in Rosen's translation of Branfman's LGBTQ youth guide.

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Going Off Script: The Contradictory Pleasures of Unorthodox

Roni Masel

Roni Masel proposes a "failed watching" of Netflix's new series Unorthodox that sidesteps questions of authenticity in representation and instead "generates what we could call queer pleasure or OTD pleasure."

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Queering Broadway: Indecent and Lesbian Yiddish Love

C. Tova Markenson

Onstage, intimacy that's untranslatable.