David Hewson: The Garden of Angels

GB 2022, 320 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Canongate
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and ... Weiterlesen

Melissa Broder: Milk Fed

USA 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Scribner
Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist ... Weiterlesen

Erik S. Meyers: Caged Time

USA 2021, 188 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Mirador
In 1930s New York, David Tarniss leads a quiet life as a cab driver - too quiet - in reality he is hiding a dark secret, his homosexuality, something for which he will pay dearly due to the unique circumstances of the time. A fascinating, if disturbing, story about the challenges that confronted gays (and Jews) in 1930s New York.

Eric Steel (R): Minjan

USA 2020, engl. OF, dt. UT, 118 Min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
David stammt aus einer russischen Einwandererfamilie und nimmt als guter Sohn regelmäßig an den Gottesdiensten seiner jüdischen Gemeinde teil, um das Quorum zu erreichen. Doch als Junge, der auf andere Jungs steht, fühlt er sich von den strengen Regeln seiner Community mehr und mehr eingeengt. Ausgerechnet die Nachbarn seines Großvaters, ein älteres schwules Paar, lassen ihn die Möglichkeiten von homosexueller ... Weiterlesen

Paula Vogel: Indecent

A New Play. USA 2017, 77 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Theatre Communications Group
When Sholem Asch wrote »God of Vengeance« in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of a lesbian affair between two women. Paula Vogel's ... Weiterlesen

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical gay coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. ... Weiterlesen

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

A Jewish Journey Between Genders. USA 2012, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press - Living Out
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned after a year of »involuntary research leave« to the orthodox Jewish campus as a woman - Joy Ladin. In this book, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With ... Weiterlesen

Gregg Drinkwater (ed.): Torah Queeries

Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. USA 2010, 337 pp., hardbound, € 27.59
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New York University Press
In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portion, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, this book brings together some of the world's leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah ... Weiterlesen

Warren Hoffman: The Passing Game

Queering Jewish American Culture. USA 2009, 207 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
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Tony Kushner's epic play »Angels in America« was remarkable for its sensitive engagement of Jewish American and gay cultures plus bringing these themes to a mainstream audience. While the play represented a watershed in American theater and culture, it belies a century of previous attention to queer Jewish identity in 20th-century American literature, drama, and film. This pioneering book sheds ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: My Germany

A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped. USA 2009, 210 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. A son of Holocaust survivors, haunted by his parents' suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, he was certain that Germany was one place in the world he would never visit. Those feelings shaped his Jewish and gay identity, his life, and career. Then the barriers of a lifetime began to come down, ... Weiterlesen

Arnon Grunberg: The Jewish Messiah

UK 2009, 471 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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What is it to the 16-year-old Swiss youth Xavier Radek that his grandfather served in the SS? There don't seem to be many great causes in Basel, at least within reach of a restless, socially nervous, and - let's admit it - not notably gifted young man. Until, that is, Xavier meets some members of the Basel Jewish youth group ... Weiterlesen

Elana Dykewomon: Beyond the Pale

USA 2008, 406 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Set in the early 20th century, this classic follows the lives of Chava and Gutke, two women born in a Russian-Jewish settlement who ultimately immigrate to New York's Lower East Side with its teeming crowds, its sweatshops, the Henry Street Settlement House, and events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Chava becomes active in the Women's League and is confronted ... Weiterlesen

Arnon Grunberg: The Jewish Messiah

USA 2008, 471 pp., hardback, € 21.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
What is it to the 16-year-old Swiss youth Xavier Radek that his grandfather served in the SS? There don't seem to be many great causes in Basel, at least within reach of a restless, socially nervous, and - let's admit it - not notably gifted young man. Until, that is, Xavier meets some members of the Basel Jewish youth group ... Weiterlesen

Naomi Alderman: Disobedience

UK 2007, 277 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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In suburban north-west London, where leafy avenues wind into the countryside beyond, the Orthodox Jewish community of Hendon quietly conducts its daily life. But then a beloved Rabbi dies, and his passing brings his wayward daughter home. For the past 10 years Ronit has been living the life of a modern New York woman, who is in love with a ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: Writing a Jewish Life

USA 2005, 166 pp., brochure, € 13.20
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In »Writing a Jewish Life«, novelist Lev Raphael with unflinching honesty his struggles to claim both his religious and sexual identities, and the happyness he subsequently found. A son of Holocaust survivors, Raphael came to a positive Jewish identity late in life and his gay identity even later. He descirbes growing up in unmistakably Jewish but nonreligious home, discovering a ... Weiterlesen

Steven Greenberg: Wrestling with God & Men

Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition. USA 2004, 304 pp., brochure, € 18.79
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Defying more than 3,000 years of Torah tradition and belief, Greenberg, an Orthodox rabbi who publicized his homosexuality in 1999, embarks on a thorough, if questionable, trek to reevaluate the overt biblical prohibition of male-male relations. For millennia, two bibical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abominable that it is punishable by death. ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Boyarin / Daniel Itzkovitz (eds.): Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

USA 2003, 464 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Columbia University Press
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Desire and the Riddle of Identity. USA 1999, 209 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, »The Elusive Embrace« is an exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the ... Weiterlesen