Constructing a Transgender Version of Jewish Tradition: Joy Ladin’s The Soul of the Stranger.
In 2019, Joy Ladin published The Soul of the Stranger, a book that offers a transgender critical reading of the Torah along with Ladin’s personal reflections as a transgender member of a Jewish community with a background in Torah observance. This essay offers an analysis of The Soul of the Stranger...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 76 - 95 |
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Religious Communication Association
Winter2022
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