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Subject Guide: LGBTQ History

Archival collections and library materials found at the Center that highlight LGBTQ histories and individuals.

Linke Fligl Collection (RG 2319) YIVO.

Linke Fligl Manifesto

Archival Highlights

Linke Fligl Collection (RG 2319)

Linke Fligl was a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project which operated from 2016 to 2022 in Millerton, NY. This collection contains papers related to Linke Fligl events, organizational development, and sales and distribution. Objects in the collection include merchandise, signage, and tapestries and other textiles. The Linke Fligl collection may be of interest to researchers of leftist/radical politics; cultural organizing; diasporism; queer, rural life; and farming and agriculture movements through a Jewish lens.

Library Highlights

A Symposium : New Jewish and Christian Approaches to Homosexuality : / Patti Jung, Jeffrey Siker, Elliot Dorff, Frederick Borsch, Rebecca Alpert, Donal Godrey [i.e. Godfrey]. San Francisco]: Swig Judaic Studies Program at the U of San Francisco, 2002. Print. Swig Lecture ; 2002.

Balancing on the Mechitza : Transgender in Jewish Community / Edited by Noach Dzmura. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic, 2010. Print. Io; No. 66.

Beyond Flesh : Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema / Raz Yosef. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2004. Print.

Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite : Being Gay and Jewish in America / Lawrence D. Mass ; Foreword by Gottfried Wagner. London ; New York: Cassell, 1994. Print. Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies.

First Person Jewish / Alisa S. Lebow. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 2008. Print. Visible Evidence v. 22.

Found Footage, Hidden Meanings : On Queer Subtext, Yiddish Films & Subcultural Recycling / Eve Sicular. Toronto: Parallelograme Artist-Run Culture, 1996. Print.

Independence Park : The Lives of Gay Men in Israel / [edited By] Amir Sumakaʾi Fink and Jacob Press. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 1999. Print. Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.).

Lesbian Rabbis : The First Generation / Edited by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, Shirley Idelson. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2001. Print.

Out of Our Kitchen Closets : San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking / [editor-in-chief, Ron Moskowitz ; Writers, Betty Kalis ... Et Al. ; Illustrations, Ralph Frischman]. San Francisco: Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, 1987. Print.

Symptoms of Modernity : Jews and Queers in Late-twentieth-century Vienna / Matti Bunzl. Berkeley: U of California, 2004. Print.

The Choosing : A Rabbi's Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days / Andrea Myers. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2011. Print.

The Education of a Daffodil : Prose Poems / Yermiyahu Ahron Taub = Di Bildung Fun a Geln Nartsis : Prozelider / Yirmyohu Arn Ṭaub. 2017. Print.

The Passing Game : Queering Jewish American Culture / Warren Hoffman. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 2009. Print. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art.

 Why Bother about Homosexuals? : Homophobia and Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany / Geoffrey J. Giles. Washington, D.C.: Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2002. Print. J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture.