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Spinning A Rainbow Thread (Temple Emanu-El, Honolulu)

Temple Emanu-El 2550 Pali Highway, Honolulu, HI

Join us as Noam Sienna reads selected stories from his groundbreaking collection of queer Jewish texts. There will be a Q-and-A after the reading, followed by a book signing. Spanning two millennia, five continents, and containing translations from fifteen languages, “A Rainbow Thread” is a new, definitive anthology for queer Jewish history. Through an unprecedented...

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Reflections on Writing Queer Jewish History (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

University of Hawai'i at Manoa Sakamaki Hall A201, 2530 Dole St, Honolulu, HI

What is the place of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews in history? Over the past two years, Noam Sienna has worked to uncover documents that until now have been scattered across the globe, and largely unrecognized. Pulling together these varied sources, written in over fifteen languages — which include poetry, literature, law, midrash,...

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Hearing Her Voice: LGBTQ Jewish Women Speak From the Past (O‘ahu Jewish Ohana)

O‘ahu Jewish Ohana 920 University Avenue, Honolulu, HI

This session uses havruta-style study, a traditional Jewish mode of paired learning, to explore how Jewish women who love women have been represented, and how they have represented themselves, in texts from antiquity to the 20th century. Contrasting how lesbianism was understood by Talmudic and medieval rabbinic authorities to the lives of Jewish lesbians recorded...

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A Rainbow Thread Book Reading (Jewish Community of Maui)

Loft 145 81 N Church St, Wailuku, HI

Spanning two millennia and containing translations from over fifteen languages, Noam Sienna’s new book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969, collects more than a hundred sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities for the first time. Join us for a reading of selected stories...

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Behind the Book: Visiting Author Series with Noam Sienna (Providence, RI)

Dwares JCC 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, RI

Join us as Noam Sienna reads selected stories from his groundbreaking collection of queer Jewish texts. There will be a Q-and-A after the reading, followed by a book signing. Spanning two millennia, five continents, and containing translations from fifteen languages, "A Rainbow Thread" is a new, definitive anthology for queer Jewish history. Through an unprecedented...

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Holy Permutations: Queer and Trans Readings of Sacred Texts (United Theological Seminary, St. Paul)

United Theological Seminary 767 Eustis St., St. Paul, MN

Noam Sienna (A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Sources from the First Century to 1969) and Austen Hartke (Transforming: The Bible and Lives of Transgendered Christians) will engage in a conversation regarding queer and trans interpretations of sacred texts, facilitated by United student Max Brumberg-Kraus. The evening will conclude with attendees working through...

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Pincus Lecture: Reflections on Writing Queer Jewish History (Dickinson College)

Dickinson College Carlisle, PA

Join the Asbell Center for their annual Pincus Lecture with Noam Sienna, author of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969. His book spans almost two millennia and contains translations from more than a dozen languages and collects more than a hundred sources on the intersection of Jewish and...

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Lunch and Learn: A Millennium of Queer Jewish Poetry (Dickinson College)

Dickinson College Carlisle, PA

Guest speaker Noam Sienna, Jewish educator, artist and doctoral candidate in Jewish History and Museum Studies at the University of Minnesota. This session uses havruta-style study, a traditional Jewish mode of learning, to explore a tradition of homoerotic Jewish poetry stretching from the Middle Ages until the present. Using poems written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic,...

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Limmud Michigan

Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI

Two sessions: 2:10pm - 3:05pm My Beloved Who is Different: A Millennium of Queer Jewish Poetry This session uses havruta-style study, a traditional Jewish mode of paired learning, to explore a tradition of homoerotic Jewish poetry stretching from the Middle Ages until the present. Using poems written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Persian, Dutch, Russian, and...

$18