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A Gay Synagogue in New York recounts the communal experiences and personal dilemmas of the congregants of Beth Simchat Torah, the largest gay and lesbian synagogue in the United States.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date:
29 November 2002
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780812218404
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Social groups: religious groups and communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
"A clear winner . . . this book is a model of how to do ethnography in a modern context."
"A important book."
"Shokeid is skillful in conveying the ideological, gender-based, and religious cleavages that make the establishment of a lesbian and gay congregation a complicated endeavor."
"A important book."
"Shokeid is skillful in conveying the ideological, gender-based, and religious cleavages that make the establishment of a lesbian and gay congregation a complicated endeavor."
Moshe Shokeid is Professor of Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.