Category: Jewish Interests

Posted in Jewish Interests Non-Fiction

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman | Israel/Palestine and the Queer International | In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Pal

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Jewish Interests Romance

Sorel in Love by Barbara Sorel

Barbara Sorel | Sorel in Love | The story of a failed lesbian relationship modeled on Marcel Proust’s *Swann in Love*. Sorel was a fixture of the Greenwich Village scene since the mi

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction Jewish Interests

Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of

Posted in Fiction Jewish Interests

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale | Elana Dykewomon’s Lambda Award-winning novel Beyond the Pale announces itself to the world with an infant’s scream–‘a new voice, a tiny shofar

Posted in Fiction Jewish Interests Short Story Collection (Single Author)

New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 by Shelly Oria

Shelly Oria | New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 | The stories in New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 are full of voices, some unnamed and others identified, that speak to a contemporary generation as they explore

Posted in Jewish Interests Mystery

Murder Under the Fig Tree by Kate Jessica Raphael

Kate Jessica Raphael | Murder Under the Fig Tree | Kate Jessica Raphael’s first book lured me into this lesbian-murder-mystery tent. A political essayist and blogger whom I had long admired, Ms. Raphae

Posted in Graphic Novel Jewish Interests

Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel | Dykes to Watch Out For | Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist’s graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life.

The central ch

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Jewish Interests

Nice Jewish Girls by Evelyn Torton Beck

Evelyn Torton Beck | Nice Jewish Girls | A stunning collection of angry, bitter, proud, and joyful writing–poetry, stories, history, analysis, autobiography–on Jewish lesbian identity. With

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction Jewish Interests

Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of

Posted in Jewish Interests YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Flamboyant by Elizabeth Swados

Elizabeth Swados | Flamboyant | When Chana Landau begins her job as a teacher at Harvey Milk High School, she leaves the protection of her traditional Orthodox Jewish enclave in Broo