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Reading “Queer” Ashkenaz: This Time from East to West
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 2011 (T211)
- pp. 50-56
- Article
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What if we read “queer” Eastern European Jews not through a Central European psychoanalytic lens, but through the analytic resources of Ashkenaz? Could queer studies approaches to Yiddish culture, in their reliance on Freudian and post-Freudian perspectives, have failed to see the full contours of traditional Jewish erotic systems?