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Ru'ach's collection of Jewish GLBT Books

Ru'ach has contributed to the Temple Israel library one of the nation's most complete collections of books on Jewish GLBT issues.

The Ru'ach collection includes the following books:


General Jewish GLBT Books

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

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

Queer Jew, edited by David Shneer and Caryn Aviv

A Gay Synagogue in New York, by Moshe Shokeid

Out of Our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking

The View from Stalin's Head, by Aaron Hamburger

Lesbians

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

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

Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, edited by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson

Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians, edited by Irene Zahava

A Departure from the Script, by Rochelle Hollander Schwab
Bethlehem Road, by Nancy Crowe

Naked in the Promised Land – A Memoir, by Lillian Faderman

Gay Men

Dancing on Tisha B'Av, by Lev Raphael

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

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant: An Adoption Story, by Dan Savage

Kosher Meat, edited by Lawrence Schimel

Found Tribe, edited by Lawrence Schimel

The Lost Language of Cranes, by David Leavitt

The Same Embrace, by Michael Lowenthal

Avoidance , by Michael Lowenthal

Perfect Mondays, by Stanley E. Ely

In Jewish Texas – A Family Memoir, by Stanley E. Ely

The Devil and Daniel Silverman, by Theodore Roszak

Years from Now, by Gary Glickman

Domesticity Isn't Pretty, by Tim Barela


Bisexual

Blessed Bi Spirit – Bisexual People of Faith, edited by Debra Kolodny


Transgender

Yentl's Revenge, by Danya Ruttenberg and Susannah Heschel

Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg


Holocaust

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin, by Gad Beck and Frank Heibert, translated by Allison Brown

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

Men with Pink Triangles, by Heinz Heger, translated by David Fernbach


Israel

Between Sodom and Eden: A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel (Between Men--Between Women), by Lee Walzer

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences), by Amir Sumaka'i Fink and Jacob Press

Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives, edited by Tracy Moore


Passover Haggadah

Like An Orange on a Seder Plate: Our Lesbian Haggadah, by Ruth Simkin


Feminism

Standing Again at Sinai – Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, by Judith Plaskow

Engendering Judaism – An Inclusive Theology and Ethics, by Rachel Adler


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