Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies

The Wisdom of Transkeit

Edited By: Jane Rachel Litman, Jakob Hero-Shaw

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This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through tradition, art, and personal stories. With richly diverse voices, each page reveals startling insights into the construction of gender from a Jewish perspective.

This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, art, autobiography, and solidarity. It…

This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, art, autobiography, and solidarity. It features an analysis of Biblical and Rabbinic thinking, sample rituals, guidance on Jewish practice, spoken word poetry, music, trans Jewish history, psychology, and personal stories. The contributing voices are richly diverse and include transpioneer Kate Bornstein, a drag queen rabbi, Jews by Choice, Jews of Color, the Jewish consultant to the show Transparent, Orthodox Jews, a Jewish priestess, and a Metropolitan Community Church minister. Each page reveals startling, fresh insights into the construction and disruption of gender from a Jewish perspective.

Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman coordinates the Jewish Roundtable at the Pacific School of Religion’s Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies, which sponsors cutting-edge speakers on queer and Jewish issues and convenes conferences and strategic summits for groups such as trans Jews, LGBTQ rabbis, and Jewish queerspawn. Litman’s book, Lifecycles 2: Jewish Women on Scriptural Themes in Contemporary Life, co-edited with Rabbi Debra Orenstein, won a number of prestigious academic and community awards.

Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw coordinates the Transgender Roundtable at the Pacific School of Religion’s Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies, and is a faculty member for the Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort. He is the Senior Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Tampa.

Fern Feldman, Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater, Rona Matlow, Noach Dzmura, Martin Rawlings-Fein, Irwin Keller, Surat-Shaan Knan, Enzi Tanner, Mya Byrne, Kohenet Ariel Vegosen, Marla Brettschneider, Joy Ladin, Levi Ethan Alter, Zebulon Hurst, Jericho Vincent, Levi Maxwell, Abigail Weissman, Susan Goldberg

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-8441-0
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8441-9
Date of Publication: 2022-07-28

Paperback

ISBN: 1-5275-1070-0
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-1070-8
Date of Publication: 2023-04-27

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-8442-9
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8442-6
Date of Publication: 2023-04-27

Categories: Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology, Religion and Faith

Pages: 180

Subject Codes:

BIC: JFSJ5, JFSR1, HRLM7
THEMA: JBSF3(5PGJ), JBSR, QRVP7