A Gay Synagogue in New York by Moshe Shokeid
A Gay Synagogue in New York recounts the communal experiences and personal dilemmas of the congregants of Beth Simchat Torah, the largest gay and lesbian synagogue in the United States.
A Gay Synagogue in New York
Summary
Explores the dramatic true story of a group of gay and lesbian Jews confronting questions of sexual identity within a traditional religious framework in the creation of the largest gay congregation.
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A Gay Synagogue in New York Reviews
A clear winner . . . this book is a model of how to do ethnography in a modern context. * Leonard Plotnicov, author of American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar *
A important book. * Jewish Journal of Sociology *
Shokeid is skillful in conveying the ideological, gender-based, and religious cleavages that make the establishment of a lesbian and gay congregation a complicated endeavor. * Journal of Contemporary Ethnography *
A important book. * Jewish Journal of Sociology *
Shokeid is skillful in conveying the ideological, gender-based, and religious cleavages that make the establishment of a lesbian and gay congregation a complicated endeavor. * Journal of Contemporary Ethnography *
About Moshe Shokeid
Moshe Shokeid is Professor of Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.
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CIN081221840XVG
9780812218404
081221840X
A Gay Synagogue in New York by Moshe Shokeid
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Pennsylvania Press
20021129
288
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