Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition

by Rebecca Alpert

Overview

One of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi explores how lesbians can shape Jewish tradition to resonate with their own experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231096614
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Series:	Between Men - between Women Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.49(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Alpert is assistant professor of religion and women's studies at Temple University and is a codirector of the Women's Studies Program. She is the coauthor ofExploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach.

Editorial Reviews

Makes a solid contribution to both Jewish feminism and lesbian and gay studies, breaking new ground in its focus on transforming Jewish religious life from a lesbian perspective. . . . Writing in a straightforward, inviting-sometimes pastoral-voice that reaches out to a larger audience, Alpert defines lesbianism in a multi-faceted way that allows her to examine shifting understandings of lesbians in Jewish tradition.

Women's Review of Books

An extremely valuable and visionary source for Jewish lesbians who long to be recognized and to participate fully in mainstream synagogue life. . . . The author is to be congratulated for bravely taking on such an all-consuming topic and writing such an accessible, powerful and provocative book.

Lambda Book Report

Like Bread on the Seder Plate will capture the interest of many readers with varying levels of knowledge of Jewish and lesbian history; it will guide and enable their future study; it will inspire readers to implement many of Alpert's specific suggestions toward the transformation of Jewish tradition; and it will serve as an excellent resource for scholars of both Jewish and lesbian cultures in the United States.

American Studies International