There are many people who have helped make this special issue possible. First and foremost I want to thank Janet Jakobsen, the Director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard for first inviting many of the contributors to Barnard as a part of the Rennert Women in Judaism Forums. It was at Barnard … Read more
DedicationRuth Bayard SmithMay 3, 1950 – May 26, 2002 I first met Ruthie in 1978 when we worked together on a project for Westinghouse Television finding people to appear in a film based on the book Passages. We decided to meet a few days before the job began at the former Coffee Connection in Harvard Square. … Read more
“Ireland’s Jews: A Fading Tribe on the Emerald Isle,” Story and photos by Paul Margolis Jewish Ireland Michelle Citron’s Website Michelle Citron – Personal Website Saints and Shadows by Muriel Hasbun Mundos Creados, Noorderlicht Photofestival, The Netherlands Article about Joanne Leonard in Research News Lorie Novak’s Collected Visions Internet project Lorie Novak’s Bibliography (from Collected Visions)
And when I asked my mother if Icould have this album and she repliedthis stays here in this apartmentuntil I die I glimpsed again the urgencyto be known. –Irena Klepfisz, “Solitary Acts,” A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Portland, 1990. Frames, Screens, Albums, Constructions: An Overview This issue began as a kind of … Read more
Prolog This is a story about the United States caught in a fabulated, on-going present that began some time ago. A time when some assemblage of things (technologies, sensibilities, flows of power and money, daydreams, institutions, ways of experiencing time and space, battles, dramas, bodily states. . .) started to articulate (and disarticulate) into (and … Read more
Crisis and Community In the wake of the complex event now known simply as “9/11,” I was reminded that to be compelled to become a witness to trauma – to be sure one is in trauma’s field without being clinically traumatized oneself – can be a heretical relief. Sometimes we flock to the site of … Read more
When I had finished a draft of this essay, I sent a copy to Wayne Koestenbaum, to be sure that my memory of his words seemed accurate to him. As a result we began an e-mail exchange, which I reprint here because his responses about teaching are an eloquent indication of the kind of teacher … Read more
It was the second class meeting, and we were assembled around the seminar table. “How can we have a conversation about anything that matters with the door open?” the professor asked. He got up from his seat, a simple but theatrical gesture, and gave the door a firm push, until we all heard the click … Read more
These remarks were first prepared for a symposium organized by Professor Elisa Glick at the University of Missouri-Columbia, entitled, “Race, Ethnicity & Queer Studies,” sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Not Freud Again! My next monograph, tentatively entitled, “Between Fabrication and Generation[s]”: Biology, Sex (Acts), and Habitual Non-Belonging, interrogates the productive and the non-productive, … Read more
“The passing faces in the streets seem [. . .] to multiply the indecipherable and nearby secret of the monument.” – de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, 15 The Monumental I begin with some images I gathered while thinking about Patricidic Culture. Patricidic Culture is culture that depends on the production of Dead Dads – dads … Read more
