Lilith and Eve There was nothing worse for Lilith (the first wife of Adam, according to a rabbinic legend) than living with her husband. So she decided to run away. And so God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and out, of one of his ribs, created for him a second companion, Eve. …
The Jewish Crisis Centre This month’s cover is an artistic vision of people working to help refugees in the White Building, next to Nożyków Synagogue, at 6 Twarda Street in Warsaw. It was there, after the events of the 24th of February, that the Jewish Crisis Centre was established. The newly-created body helps, on a…
Since Spring 2018, we have published several dozen essays by leading progressive rabbis and Jewish thinkers interpreting the Bible through a queer lense. In this issue, David Brodsky spins the fascinating tale of the rabbis’ centuries-old debate on anal sex.
Polish premiere of Jerome Rothenberg’s poems; first-ever in-depth study of Chaim Grade’s papers; conversation with Rabbi Alisa Zilbershtein about helping Ukraine; further adventures of Jewish ex-scientologist and trans activist Kate Bornstein; and the next chapter of Grade’s Di agune.
While the whole world is anxiously watching the war in Ukraine, we are looking for Tora’s response to the question of the treatment of outlanders and refugees.
This issue of Chidusz is exceptional. Decades after Grade’s death, his prose is finally coming out in Polish. Starting this month, we will publish, in sixteen episodes, the Polish translation of Aguna – the most famous novel of this outstanding Yiddish writer.
In this issue of Chidusz we give you the first Polish translation of Tony Kushner’s short play Reverse Transcription, the next episode of Kate Bornstein’s memoir A Queer and Pleasant Danger and the final chapter of The Dark Young Man – the first Yiddish bestseller written by Yankev Dinezon
On the 8. birthday of Chidusz we give you the Polish translation of Tony Kushner’s play Terminating, we talk about the legacy of the Polish Jews and the power (which according to the Bible) man possess over nature. We also publish the penultimate episode of The Dark Young Man and part II of Kate Bornstein’s…
The cover features Kate Bornstein – transgender lesbian activist, theorist, and performance artist, „a sublebrity in the pantheon of America’s queer and postmodern subcultures” whose memoire will appear in the next ten issues of Chidusz. But this issue also contains a much less colorful story – the tale of the post-war destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Kępno.