What is the place of LGBTQ Jews in history? Over the past two years Noam Sienna, a doctoral candidate in Jewish history and museum studies at the University of Minnesota, has been compiling documents that suggest answers to that question. His new book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969 (Print-O-Craft Press, 2019), is the first anthology of queer Jewish history. The collection brings together over 100 sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities that span two millennia and have been translated from more than a dozen languages. In this presentation, Sienna will read selections from this groundbreaking collection, demonstrating that queerness and queer Judaism have been a constant subplot of Jewish history.
SPEAKER
Noam Sienna is a Jewish educator, artist, and doctoral candidate in Jewish history and museum studies at the University of Minnesota. His academic work focuses on the history and culture of Jewish communities in the Islamic world, from the Middle Ages to the present.
LOCATION
This event has been moved online. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and instructions on how to join the Zoom webinar as an attendee. Attendees will be able to participate as a virtual audience by asking questions, participating in polls and chatting with one another and panelists. Attendee registration is limited to 100 participants.
We will also be livestreaming this event on the GLBT Historical Society YouTube channel and linking to the video on social media for an unlimited amount of viewers.
ADMISSION
Free | $5.00 suggested donation
ASL INTERPRETATION
ASL interpretation provided upon request. Please write at least three days in advance of event to leigh@glbthistory.org.
ABOUT THE BOOK
For more information about A Rainbow Thread, visit the publisher’s website here.
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Image credit: Portrait of Noam Sienna (2019); photo by Erik Nelson, used with permission.