Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community by Dzmura, Noach
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community by Dzmura, Noach

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender...
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Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community by Dzmura, Noach

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

$39.61
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community by Dzmura, Noach

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

$39.61
Author: Noach Dzmura
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction

While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist and LGBT movements in the Jewish world, Jews who identify with the "T" now sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza offers a multifaceted portrait of this increasingly visible community.

The contributors--activists, theologians, scholars, and other transgender Jews--share for the first time in a printed volume their theoretical contemplations as well as rite-of-passage and other transformative stories. Balancing on the Mechitza introduces readers to a secular transwoman who interviews her Israeli and Palestinian peers and provides cutting-edge theory about the construction of Jewish personhood in Israel; a transman who serves as legal witness for a man (a role not typically open to persons designated female at birth) during a conversion ritual; a man deprived of testosterone by an illness who comes to identify himself with passion and pride as a Biblical eunuch; and a gender-variant person who explores how to adapt the masculine and feminine pronouns in Hebrew to reflect a non-binary gender reality.

Author: Noach Dzmura
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781556438134


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

About the Author
Noach Dzmura is an instructor at the Progressive Jewish Alliance. His writings have appeared in Sh'ma, the Jewish Chronicle (UK), Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, and other publications. The recipient of the Haas-Koshland Award, he lives in Berkeley, CA.
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