Blessings Beyond the Binary

NORA RUBEL is the Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination and coeditor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North America. BRETT KRUTZSCH is the assistant director of New York University’s Center for Religion and Media and editor of its award-winning magazine, The Revealer. He is the author of the book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics.

"Introduction," Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch



Part I: Transforming Jews on TV

1. "Rebooting Jewish Television," Joshua Lambert

2. "'Happy Yom Kippur': Televising and Translating Atonement," Nora Rubel

3. "Melancholy and Joy: Jewish Nomadism and Transparent," Ranen Omer-Sherman

4. "The Historiography of Transparent," Martin Shuster



Part II: Performing Judaism and Jewish Identity

5. "Dancing Out the Torah: Ritual, Bodies, and Transitions in Transparent," Jodi Eichler-Levine

6. "From Oy to Hineni: Language and Transition in Transparent," Sarah Bunin Benor

7. "Pfefferman's Complaint: Transparent and the Tenacity of Jewish Familial Stereotypes," Jarrod Tanny

8. "The Gentile, the Demonic, and Collapsing Binaries in Transparent," Shaul Magid



Part III: Transgressing and Queering Gender

9. "Nostalgia, Queer Time, and the Ethnic in Transparent," Jennifer Glaser

10. "Don't All Have Your Family: The Critique of Religion in Transparent," Kathryn Lofton

11. "From Beautiful Rabbi to Queer Kohenet: Gender and Judaism in and Beyond Transparent," Shari Rabin 



Part IV: Queering Jewish and Transgender History: Three Perspectives on Transparent's Use of the Holocaust

12. "Queer Temporality in Trans Times: Connecting and Belonging in Transparent's Second Season," Joshua Falek

13. "Queering the Holocaust: Intersecting Jewish and Transgender Identities in Transparent," Kerstin Steitz

14. "Making Jewishness Transparent and Transparent Jew-ish," Marilyn Reizbaum



Part V: Transitioning and Concluding

15. "Run from Your Parent's House: Transfeminism and Abraham's Blessing," Slava Greenberg

16. "La-La-Lech-Lecha: Transparent's Musical Movie Finale," Warren Hoffman

17. "Conclusion," Brett Krutzsch



Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index