The 120 texts in the anthology, many of which have never been translated into English before, range from rabbinic responsa and poetry to newspaper articles and personal reflections they include a poem by Emma Lazarus, which expresses her desire and love for another woman a witness in a sixteenth century rabbinic trial in the Ottoman empire, incidentally known throughout the community for his liaisons with other men a nineteenth century Sephardic rabbi in Smyrna who rules on a divorce case in which the wife has “become male.” Together, these stories demonstrate a multiplicity of non-normative experiences across millennia and across the globe, from South Asia to the Lower East Side. Noam Sienna ambitiously collected texts from throughout Jewish history and produced a work that illuminates the wider spectrum of gender and sexuality.
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