Books and Films

Books

Queer Jews edited by David Shneer and Caryn Aviv

Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish edited by Avi Rose and Christie Balka

Lesbian Rabbis edited by by Rebecca T. Alpert, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson

US Holocaust Museum, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945 http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/

An Underground Life: Memoirs of A Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999)

Yentl's Revenge: The next wave of Jewish Feminism edited by Danya Ruttenberg (Seal Press)

Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition edited by Rebecca Alpert

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology edited by Evelyn Torton Beck

A Gay Synagogue in New York by Moshe Shokeid

Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories and Kosher Meat edited by Lawrence Schimel

The Burning Bush: Jewish Women Write About Sexuality edited by Lawrence Schimel and Rachel Kramer Bussel

A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971-1990) by Irena Klepfisz and Adrienne Rich and Dreams of an Insomniac : Jewish Feminist Essay, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz. Numerous other books of poems by Adrienne Rich.

Stone Butch Blues written by Leslie Feinberg

Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America written by Lawrence D. Mass

The Tribe of Dina by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals written by Richard Plant

Men with Pink Triangles written by Heinz Heger and translated by David Fernbach

Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and Jewish written by Lev Raphael

The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman

Hot Chicken Wings and Cravings by Jyl Lynn Felman

The Same Embrace by Michael Lowenthal

Films

Paragraph 175 directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
www.newyorkerfilms.com

Tomboychik by Sandi DuBowski, available at www.vdb.org and on Trembling Before G-d DVD

Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House directed by Deborah Dickson

Aimee and Jaguar directed by Max Farberbock

Bubbeleh and Me, a film directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson

Fast Trip, Long Drop directed by Gregg Bordowitz

Naming Prairie directed by Alex Juhasz

Bent directed by Sean Mathias

Torch Song Trilogy directed by Paul Bogart

Chicks in White Satin by Elaine Holliman

Complaints of A Dutiful Daughter directed by Deborah Hoffman

Cancer in Two Voices directed by Lucy Massie Phenix

Man Is A Woman directed by Jean-Jacques Zilberman

Nana, George and Me directed by George Balass

But I Was A Girl…The Story of Freida Belinfante directed by Tony Boumans

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic directed by Lisa Udelson

Treyf directed by Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky

When Shirley Met Florence directed by Ronit Bezalel

Everything Relative by Sharon Pollack

Deaf Heaven directed by Steve Levitt

Hand on the Pulse directed by Joyce Warshow

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg directed by Jerry Aronson

The Times of Harvey Milk directed by Rob Epstein

Novembermoon directed by Alexandra von Grote

Yentl directed by Barbra Streisand

The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film: "A yingl mit a yingl hot epes a tam?"Lesbian & Gay Subtext from a Cinema of Diaspora, A video clips/lecture by Eve Sicular
metropolitanklezmer.com/celluloid.html

For other films, visit www.jewishfilm.com and www.planetout.com/pno/popcornq
and http://www.oneinstitute.org/~twiceblessed/filmhp.shtml

Bands like The Klezmatics, Metropolitan Klezmer, Isle of Klezbos