General Jewish GLBT Books

Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish edited by Christie Balka and Andy Rose

Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and Jewish written by Lev Raphael

Lesbians

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology edited by Evelyn Torton Beck

Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition written by Rebecca Alpert

Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, edited by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson

Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians edited by Irene Zahava

Gay Men

Dancing on Tisha B'Av written by Lev Raphael

Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America written by Lawrence D. Mass

Kosher Meat edited by Lawrence Schimel

Bisexual*

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu

Transgender*

Yentl's Revenge written by Danya Ruttenberg and Susannah Heschel

Stone Butch Blues written by Leslie Feinberg

Holocaust

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin written by Gad Beck and Frank Heibert and translated by Allison Brown

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals written by Richard Plant

Men with Pink Triangles written by Heinz Heger and translated by David Fernbach

Israel

Between Sodom and Eden: A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel (Between Men--Between Women) written by Lee Walzer

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences) written by Amir Sumaka'i Fink and Jacob Press

Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives edited by Tracy Moore

Passover Haggadah

Like An Orange on a Seder Plate: Our Lesbian Haggadah written by Ruth Simkin

*There are no specific books about Judaism and bisexuality or being Jewish and transgendered, but I have listed books with some relevancy. Bi Any Other Name has several stories written by Jewish bisexual women and men. Danya Ruttenberg, co-author of Yentl's Revenge writes about Jewish trans issues, and Leslie Feinberg, who has never specifically written about the crossection of Jewish trans identity, has written several ground breaking books about what it means to be transgendered.

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Student Services Coordinator
Princeton University
Bazarsky@Princeton.edu or (609) 258-1353

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