Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (75 page)

Contributors

Daniel Itzkovitz
is associate professor of literature at Stonehill College. He is currently working on a book about Jews and twentieth-century American cul- ture, and is editor of a new edition of Fannie Hurst’s novel
Imitation of Life
(Duke University Press).

Janet R. Jakobsen
is director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College. Before coming to Barnard she was associate professor of women’s studies and religious studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of
Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Femi- nist Ethics
(Indiana University Press, 1998), coauthor (with Ann Pellegrini) of
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
(New York University Press, 2002), and coeditor (also with Ann Pellegrini) of
World Sec- ularisms at the Millennium
, a special issue of
Social Text
. Her current book project is “Sex, Secularism and Social Movements: The Value of Ethics in a Global Economy.” Before entering the academy, she was a policy analyst and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

Michael Moon
is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author of
Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in “Leaves of Grass”
(1991) and
A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in Ameri- can Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
(1998); his essay in this volume is excerpted from the latter.

Ann Pellegrini
is associate professor of religious studies and performance stud- ies at New York University. She is the author of
Performance Anxieties: Stag- ing Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
and coauthor of
Love the Sin: Sexual Regula- tion and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
.

Jacob Press
is a writer, editor, and translator living in Fairmont, West Virginia. He received his A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University and studied English with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at Duke University. He is the coauthor of
Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel
(Stanford, 2000).

humanities computing specialist for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His most recent publication is a monograph entitled
New Men: Converso Reli- giosity in Fifteenth-Century Castile
, published in the
Papers of the Medieval His- panic Research Seminar
(Alan Deyermond, series editor). He has also worked with Professor Samuel Armistead (University of California, Davis) to create the online Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews website under a National Science Foundation grant and support from the Maurice Amado Foundation.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
teaches in the Ph.D. Program in English at CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include
Between Men: English Literature And Male Homosocial Desire, Epistemology of the Closet, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love,
and
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity.

Naomi Seidman
is an associate professor of Jewish culture and the director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theologi- cal Union in Berkeley. Her
A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish
appeared in 1997. She is presently working on a book entitled “Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation.”

Alisa Solomon
is a professor of English/journalism at Baruch College–City University of New York and of English and theater at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also served for four years as the executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. She is also a staff writer at the
Village Voice
where she covers, along with immigration policy, contemporary theater, and other areas, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is the author of
Re-Dress- ing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender
, winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She is coeditor, with Framji Minwal- la, of
The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater
, and coeditor, with Tony Kushner, of the forthcoming anthology,
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
.

Stacy Wolf
is associate professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of
A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sex- uality in the American Musical
(University of Michigan Press, 2002) and the editor of
Theatre Topics
, a journal of performance pedagogy and praxis.

Index

Abelove, Henry, 84

Abraham, Karl, 91

Abramovitsh, S. Y., 228–29, 238, 242
nn
2, 5;
The Fathers and the Sons,
235

Acanfora,
43

Aleichem, Sholem, 228–29, 241
n
1, 242
n
4

American Psychiatric Association, 147
n
91 Ansky, S. Y.,
The Dybbuk,
12, 229–41,

243
n
11, 244
n
21

Antisemitic stereotypes, 19

Arendt, Hannah, 337

Aretino, Pietro, 130

Ashkenaz, 228–30, 235

Assimilation, 191
n
27, 334, 349–51,

354, 356

Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals in Israel, 155;
see also
Society for the Protection of Personal Rights

Auschwitz, 77

Barres,
Les Deracinés,
37, 364
n
24 Batsheva Dance Company, 150 Belle Juive, 5, 257, 260, 264
n
45

Ben-Gurion, David, 154, 161, 163
n
14

Berlant, Lauren, 150, 162, 163
n
7

Bernhardt, Sarah, 260, 274–77

Bhabha, Homi, 175, 209, 222
n
20 Bluher, Hans, 90–91; conflict with Freud,

95–99, 102, 108–10;
The German

Youth Movement as an Erotic

Phenomenon,
96, 97, 99, 101, 103, 116
n
51; and the history of the Wandervogel, 94, 101; increasing antisemitism of, 120
n
114; influenced by Benedict Friedlander, 101, 102; on

inversion, 97–98, 102; on the latent homosexual, 98;
The Role of the Erotic in Masculine Society,
104, 112;
Secessio

Judaica,
95, 106, 109

Blumgart, Leonard, 128

Bois, Curt, 27

Borne, Ludwig, 177, 192
n
30 Boswell, John, 289

Bowers v. Hardwick,
44, 47, 49; and definition of sodomy, 57

Boyarin, Daniel, 2, 10–11, 113
n
19, 140,

147
n
92, 160, 163
n
9, 218, 221
n
19,

223
n
35, 242
n
6, 244
n
25, 262
n
6,

329
n
1; on Zionism, 151

Boyarin, Jonathan, 188
n
7, 329
n
1, 350 Bray, Alan, 55

Brice, Fanny, 84, 246–48, 249–60, 265
n
60

Bunzl, Matti, 4, 9

Butler, Judith, 15–16, 81, 237, 244
n
23;

and the performative, 82, 358

Cafe Royal, 266–67, 268–69, 274

Cardoso, Abraham Miguel, 11, 199,

200–1, 209, 210–11, 222–23
n
30;

and Kabbalah, 212, 214, 218; as Messiah son of Ephraim, 212–13;

Cardoso, Abraham Miguel
(continued) Qodesh Yisra’el,
211, 213, 214, 215; and unity of two Messiahs, 214–16;

Carlston, Erin, 87

Castration complex, 24, 111, 168,

170–71, 185–86

Cavell, Stanley, 33, 358

Charcot, 29

Chaucer, Geoffrey: and gender identity, 299;
Canterbury Tales,
13, 285; “The

Prioress’s Tale,” 13, 285–87, 291,

293–95, 297, 300–1, 303, 303
n
4

Christian Coalition, 86

Circumcision: associated with castration, 20–21, 32, 33, 335; metsisah ritual, 144
n
35, 331
n
29

Civil Rights Act, 1964: 69

Civil Rights March, 1963: 65, 68 Cocteau, Jean: and antisemitism, 373–74,

386
n
5, 388
n
17; on Julius and Ethel

Rosenberg, 372;
La Belle et la bête,

14–15, 365–66, 369, 372, 374–77,

381–85; and his father, 389
n
24; friendship with Anro Breker, 369–70, 387
n
9; and National Socialism, 369–70; relationship with Marais, 377, 381–82; during the Vichy

regime, 371

Cohen, Yaron, 149, 151

Coming out: in Israeli culture, 155; as protected speech, 43–45

Cone, Michael, 369, 371

Conversos, 199, 201–3, 205–10, 218, 220
n
4, 222
n
21

Craft, Christopher, 58

Crosby, Christina, 69–70, 86

Cross-dressing, 19, 27; in Joyce’s
Ulysses,
36; Milton Berle and, 38, 40
n
37; in Shakespeare, 19, 20, 23; in “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,” 26–27;
see also
Transvestism

Crypto-Jews, 199, 201–3, 210, 217, 218

Cuddihy, John Murray, 190–91
n
27

Dana International, 10, 149–52, 162;
s
ee
also
Cohen, Yaron

Daughters of Bilitis, 74

Deleuze, Gilles, 341

D’Emilio, John, 3, 73–75, 79; on homosexuality in African American communities, 87

Derrida, Jacques, 358

Diaspora, 86
n
1, 160

Dickens, Charles, 313, 325;
Oliver Twist,

13, 313–21, 326, 328–29, 331
n
30

Diderot:
La Religieuse,
46 Dinshaw, Carolyn, 307
n
47 Diva Citizenship, 150, 151, 162

Doty, Alexander, 247, 248–49 Douglas, Lord Alfred, 46

Dreyfus affair, 339, 341–42, 344–45,

351, 356–57

Dybbuk, The, see
Ansky, S. Y.,
The Dybbuk

Edel, Leon, 268–69, 271 Eichelberger, James Roy “Ethyl,” 12,

277–78, 280; on Yiddish theater, 278 Ellis, Havelock: on arrested development,

136;
Sexual Inversion,
4, 130

Emancipation, 92, 176, 190–91
n
27,

332
n
33, 336

Equal Protection, 57

Esther, Book of, 62
n
11; and the epistemology of the closet, 51–54; Jewish self-identification in, 48–50, 51

Ezrahi, Yaron, 154, 155

Fagin, 13, 313–14, 316, 319, 322–23,

328; and “blood libel,” 320; and

pederasty, 13, 319–21

Family values, 311–14, 317, 319, 325–26 Fanon, Frantz:
Black Skin, White Masks,

113
n
19, 172, 177–79, 181–83, 186,

208; and colonial subjectivity, 167,

172, 201, 208–9; homophobia in,

181–85; and inferiority complex, 173; on Judaism, 190
n
25; misogyny in, 181–85; and negritude, 180; race as metaphor in, 175–76; on women’s sexuality, 181

Fass, Paula, 122, 141
n
4

Faulkner, William,
Light in August
, 351 Felman, Shoshana, 358

First Amendment, and gay rights, 43, 44, 61
n
3

First Cause, 213, 217, 219

Fischer, Karl, 101

Fischlin, Daniel, 14–15

Fleiss, Wilhelm, 32–33; in the writing of Hans Bluher, 109

Foucault, Michel, 3, 45, 72–74, 319, 362
n
15;
History of Sexuality,
46, 73–74, 398; on rise of middle class, 313–14; thoughts on same-sex sexuality, 55

Fradenburg, Louise, 294

Franklin, Paul, 10

Freedman, Jonathan, 13–14

Freikorps, 94

Freud, Sigmund, 32–33, 91; “The Acquisition and Control of Fire,” 110;
Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy,
108, 167; antisemitism in,

181–85, 189
n
15, 190
n
17;

biographical overview of, 92; and Charcot, 29; on class, 113
n
10;
Civilization and Its Discontents,
110; “ ‘Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness,” 95; and colonialism, 167; conflict with Bluher, 95–99, 102, 108–10, 117
n
69; on

female sexuality, 174;
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego,
109; and inversion, 60, 96–97; on Jewish racial difference, 171–72;

Jokebook,
177; on Judge Schreber, 108;

on Little Hans, 108, 168–73, 176;

and misogyny, 171–72, 185–186, 188
n
6; and mobility of sexual desire, 56;
Moses and Monotheism,
90, 93,

105, 110, 111, 112; and Otto

Weininger, 28, 168–70, 173, 186,

189
n
15; “The Overview of the Transference Neuroses,” 99–100; and the phallic mother, 24; and race, 174–75; on Sergei Pankeieff, the Wolf Man, 20, 38
n
2, 108–9; “Some

Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality,” 111;
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,

115
nn
37, 38;
Totem and Taboo,
90,

91, 94, 96, 99, 111; and trial of Leopold and Loeb, 135, 146
n
70; and the “Uncanny,” 166

Friedlander, Benedict, 4–5, 32; and chemotaxis, 102; and the Community of the Special, 59, 60, 94; influence on Hans Bluher, 101; and Naturvolker, 101;
The Renaissance of Eros Uranios,
101; “Seven Theses on Homosexuality,” 60