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Like bread on the seder plate : Jewish lesbians and the transformation of tradition / Rebecca Alpert.
Van Pelt Library BM729.H65 A47 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950-
- Series:
- Between men--between women
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Lesbianism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Lesbianism.
- Jewish lesbians.
- Feminist criticism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Rebecca Alpert, one of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi, explores how lesbians can shape Jewish tradition to resonate with their own experience.
- Contents:
- 1. Lesbian and Jewish: What's the Problem?
- 2. Troubling Texts from Torah
- 3. Jewish Lesbian Interpretation of Torah
- 4. Haznea Lekht Im Elohekha: Jewish Lesbian Visibility
- 5. Ahavat Hesed: Transforming Relationships
- 6. Asot Mishpat: The Commitment to Justice
- 7. Modern Texts: Jewish Lesbian Sexuality
- 8. Modern Texts: Jewish Lesbians and Gender Nonconformity
- 9. Contemporary Jewish Lesbian Fiction
- 10. Visions for the Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.
- Lambda Literary Awards - Spirituality, Winner, 1998
- ISBN:
- 0231096607
- 9780231096607
- 0231096615
- 9780231096614
- OCLC:
- 35627603
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