The Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience screened Make Me a King, a short film about Ari, a Jewish Drag King ostracized by their family, who clings to their hero – Pepi Littman, the first Jewish proto-Drag King, who performed in the early 20th...
Considering the past thirty years of mainstream television, film, music, and celebrity culture in relation to entrenched Jewish sexual stereotypes and gendered expectations, this panel explores how American Jewish characters have been portrayed and how American Jewish...
Join us as we screen Unspoken (2024), a groundbreaking new feature film following Noam, a closeted Jewish teenager in a religious community who discovers that he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the...
Sabbath Queen is a provocative and awe-inspiring film about an Orthodox Israeli who embraces his queerness, moves to NYC, joins the radical fairies, becomes a drag queen and a rabbi, and uses drag and other theatrical practices toward his progressive activism on a...
In this episode, cultural historian and literary scholar Golan Moskowitz discusses his current book project, which explores the cultural history of Jewish drag and its relationship with Jewish identity in America. Through detailed analysis of significant figures such...
