LGBTQ at NYPL

Celebrating Transgender Jews: 2020 Edition by Amanda SeigelNovember 19, 2015

 LGBTQ@NYPL Read inspiring life stories by and about transgender Jews, and find scholarly and community resources on gender identity and Judaism.   Prepared with special thanks to Dana Friedman, Board Member of Eshel. Updated November 12, 2020.

Life Stories - Books

Becoming Eve book cover Being Jazz book cover Queer and pleasant danger book cover My son wears heels book cover Through the door of life book cover Stone butch blues book cover

Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman  by Abby Stein

Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings

Forty years in the wilderness: my journey to authentic living by Yiscah Smith

My son wears heels: one mom's journey from clueless to kickass by Julie Tarney ; foreword by Diane Ehrensaft.

"A Queer and Pleasant Danger: the true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today by Kate Bornstein

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders by Joy Ladin

Gender Identity in Judaism - Books

Balancing on the mechitza book cover Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalynsis and Traditional Judaism book cover Soul of the stranger book cover Torah Queeries book cover  

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura

Homosexuality, transsexuality, psychoanalysis and traditional Judaism, edited by Alan Slomowitz and Alison Feit.

Rabbi Mike Moskowitz

Rainbow Thread: an anthology of queer Jewish texts from the first century to 1969, edited by Noam Sienna

The soul of the stranger : reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective by Joy Ladin

Torah queeries : weekly commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, edited by Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, and David Shneer ; foreword by Judith Plaskow.

Transgender and Jewish by Naomi Zeveloff

 

 

Articles and Talks

Rainbow

TransTorah

Transgender 101 (My Jewish Learning)

Transgender in the Jewish Community by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

Transgender Orthodox Jews by Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber

Understanding Transgender Issues in Jewish Ethics by Dr. David Teutsch

 

Resources

Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt
Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt

Gender Diversity and Judaism: National Council of Jewish Women Guide

Gender Identity: Resources and stories to support transgender and non-binary friends and family members (Keshet)

Hillel LGBTQ Resource Guide

Jewish Trans Community Resources

Nonbinary Hebrew Project

Resources for Transgender Jews, Their Families, Friends, Communities, and Allies by Vered Meir, Berman Jewish Policy Archive

Serving the Transgender Community (American Library Association)

Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals (Keshet)

Trans Resources (Eshel)

Transformative Inclusion: A Resource Guide for Transgender Welcome in Jewish Congregations and Organizations (Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion)

 

Organizations

 

 

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Interesting

Submitted by Jill (not verified) on November 20, 2015 - 11:26am

Very cool post, thanks Amanda!

NYPL: Bravo!

Submitted by Dov (not verified) on November 21, 2015 - 8:54pm

NYPL: Bravo!

Transgender jews

Submitted by Shoshana (not verified) on November 27, 2015 - 9:00am

As a Transwoman living in Canada all I can say is Kudos to all who share their stories and to the Nypl for giving us a place to share our stories.

Great stuff!

Submitted by Rachael (not verified) on November 29, 2015 - 10:05pm

Great stuff!

very nice article. thanks you

Submitted by siaptop (not verified) on December 18, 2015 - 10:58am

very nice article. thanks you

We are God's Children Too

Submitted by Rabbah Rona Matlow (not verified) on November 16, 2020 - 10:31am

I would like to call your attention to a book that should be included in this list but is absent, my book "We are God's Children Too" (url above) released this past July, part autobiography, part Midrash, part reflection, part how to manual for trans and other queer people to navigate the oppression of all orthodoxy, this book is a vital resource and should be on every trans list, Jewish or not. Thank you, Rabbah Rona Matlow, MAJED, MAJS, MEM

Happy Tears

Submitted by Kate Bornstein (not verified) on November 17, 2020 - 7:15pm

I’m kvelling. Thank you for putting this together and up here. love and respect, Auntie Kate