Looking backward in queer ways enables new histories to emerge, intervenes in a troubled present, and gives hope for unexpected futures. These poets push back against heteronormative imperatives of biological reproduction and inheritance, opting instead for connections that twist traditional models of gender and history. Queer Expectations highlights genealogical lines of continuity drawn by authors as diverse as Emma Lazarus, Kadya Molodowsky, Leah Goldberg, Anna Margolin, Irena Klepfisz, and Adrienne Rich. Bringing together Jewish women's poetry from the late nineteenth century, the interwar period, and the 1970s and 1980s, Weiman-Kelman takes readers on a boundary-crossing journey through works in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, setting up encounters between writers of different generations, locations, and languages. Jewish Womens Committee to End the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Newsletter.

In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing 'queer expectancy' as a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both invoke and resist what came before. Publication Library Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 N5 1989. Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. Nice Jewish girls : a lesbian anthology / edited by Evelyn Torton Beck.

Nice Jewish Girls by Evelyn Torton Beck