In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy” as a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both invoke and resist what came before. Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. Stay for services and hear her drash! Services led by Rabbi Copeland and Annie Atura. Explore boundary-crossing journeys through the poetry of Emma Lazarus, Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz and more over hors d ’ oeuvres and good company. Join Scholar and former Sha’ar Zahav member Zohar Weiman-Kelman as she introduces us to her new book, Queer Expectations : A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry, sharing the queer paths that lead between Jewish Women poets across languages, land and an entire century.
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