Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini

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Paper, 464 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11375-5
$30.00 / £20.50

December, 2003
Cloth, 464 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11374-8
$90.00 / £62.00

Strange Bedfellows: An Introduction, by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini

From Vested Interests, by Marjorie Garber

From Epistemology of the Closet, by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Queers Are Like Jews, Aren't They? Analogy and Alliance Politics, by Janet R. Jakobsen

Freud, Blüher, and the Secessio Inversa: Männerbünde, Homosexuality, and Freud's Theory of Cultural Formation, by Jay Geller

Jew Boys, Queer Boys: Rhetorics of Antisemitism and Homophobia in the Trial of Nathan "Babe'' Leopold Jr. and Richard "Dickie'' Loeb, by Paul B. Franklin

Viva la Diva Citizenship: Post-Zionism and Gay Rights, by Alisa Solomon

Homophobia and the Postcoloniality of the "Jewish Science', by Daniel Boyarin

Messianism, Machismo, and "Marranism'': The Case of Abraham Miguel Cardoso, by Bruce Rosenstock

The Ghost of Queer Loves Past: Ansky's "Dybbuk'' and the Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz, by Naomi Seidman

Barbra's "Funny Girl'' Body, by Stacy Wolf

Tragedy and Trash: Yiddish Theater and Queer Theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger, by Michael Moon

You Go, Figure; or, The Rape of a Trope in the "Prioress's Tale', by Jacob Press

Dickens's Queer "Jew'' and Anglo-Christian Identity Politics: The Contradictions of Victorian Family Values, by David A. H. Hirsch

Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust, by Jonathan Freedman

Queer Margins: Cocteau, La Belle et la béte, and the Jewish Difference, by Daniel Fischlin

Reflections on Germany, by Judith Butler

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies

Series

• Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

About the Author

Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the departments of Near Eastern studies and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also an affiliated faculty member in the women's studies department and gay and lesbian studies program. He is the author of Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man. Daniel Itzkovitz is associate professor of English at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. He has published articles on Jewish studies, queer theory, and American literature and is the editor of a new edition of Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life. Ann Pellegrini is associate professor of religious studies and performance studies at New York University. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race.

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