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Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

Dzmura, Noach

Paperback

Series: IO, Book 66

Religion General Judaism

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ISBN10: 1556438133
ISBN13: 9781556438134
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: Jun 1 2010
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Awards
***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.

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