"A clear winner . . . this book is a model of how to do ethnography in a modern context."
--Leonard Plotnicov, author of American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar
"A important book."
--Jewish Journal of Sociology
"Shokeid is skillful in conveying the ideological, gender-based, and religious cleavages that make the establishment
of a lesbian and gay congregation a complicated endeavor."
--Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Publisher Web Site, May, 2004
Summary
A Gay Synagogue in New York recounts the communal experiences and personal dilemmas of the congregants of Beth
Simchat Torah, the largest gay and lesbian synagogue in the United States.
