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| Queer Jewish Culture
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07 Mar 2010 - 3:30 pm | | Contributors: | Michele Aaron, David Shneer, Chair: Nathan Abrams |
| Notes: | Intersections and overlap between Queer and Jewish cultures were prominent within classic Yiddish films and writing and have resurfaced ever since.
The synthesis of the two cultures which has a great tradition in which the outsider is celebrated, also has a darker side, complicated by Antisemitic queering of the Jewish male.
Whether the ‘bearers of modernity’ or ‘the driving force behind American culture’, Queer and Jewish cultures are fascinating in their own right and particularly so when examined together. |
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