Books
Memoirs and Biographies By and About Queer Jewish Authors
Welcome to the second installation of our Shabbat Bookshelf series on queer Jewish books to read in June. Missed the first? Click here to see our fiction picks, and peruse the latest selection of memoirs and biographies below. Shabbat shalom!
1. Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
Read our review here.
2. Becoming Eve by Abby Stein
Read our review here.
3. Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael Twitty
Watch Michael Twitty in conversation with Hadassah Magazine food writer Adeena Sussman and Executive Editor Lisa Hostein here.
4. Lot Six by David Adjmi
5. Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes by Gabrielle Korn
6. Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
7. The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto Paperback by Hen Mazzig
Read an excerpt from Hen Mazzig’s memoir here.
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[…] Pride Month draws to a close, I’m appreciating this list of “Memoirs and Biographies By and About Queer Jewish Authors” over on the Hadassah magazine cite, which mixes titles that I’ve already read with some that […]