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Friedman, Elisha, 125

Fulda, Friedrich Wilhelm,
German or Nationalist: A Contribution from the Youth Movement to the Race Question,
101

Funny Girl,
246–48, 249, 252–53, 256,

259, 263
n
18

Fuss, Diana, 109, 114
n
20, 389
n
21

Garber, Marjorie, 19

Gay Rights, Special Rights,
69, 85

Geller, Jay, 1, 2, 4, 9, 144
n
35, 188
n
7,

263n28

Gender separatism, 58–60

Georg, Stefan, 94

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 28, 29

Gilman, Sander, 1, 32, 113
n
18, 142
n
18, 144
n
35, 189
n
15, 190
nn
17, 25,

223
n
31, 251, 262
n
6, 283
n
25, 319,

330n14, 331n29, 339, 361
n
9,

362
n
14 368, 386
n
1

Gilman, Stephen:
The Art of La Celestina,

202–3; on converso identity, 201–2,

205–6, 209; on the “converso paradox,” 203–4; on the Inquisition, 206;
The Spain of Fernando de Rojas: The Intellectual and Social Landscape of La Celestina,
203

Glass, Philip, 365, 380

Good Samaritan, 315–16, 327–28

Gordin, Jacob, 267–69

Grillo, Trina, 66–67, 69–71

Halperin, David, 16
n
3, 73; and “queer solidarity,” 81

Hammond, Robert, 366–68

Hapgood, Norman, 126

Harden-Eulenberg-Moltke scandal, 94,

96, 101, 114
n
26

Hasid, feminization of, 30

Haskalah, 228–30, 232–34, 237; and autobiography, 244
n
21

Hawkins, Sherman, 294, 296, 302

Hegel, 395

Herzl, Theodor, 2, 189
n
15 Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 332
n
35 Himmler, 107

Hirsch, David, 13

Hirschfeld, Magnus, 4–5, 9, 32, 102; and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, 59, 60; “third-sex” model, 59–60, 97; editor of the
Yearbook for Sexual Intermediate Types
, 98, 116
n
56

Hitler, Adolf,
Mein Kampf,
30–31, 37 Hocquenghem, Guy,
Homosexual

Desire,
113

Holocaust, 75–76; in Israeli politics, 158–59, 164
n
22

Hrotsvitha, 291, 306
n
30; and the story of Pelagius, 291–92

Hugh of Lincoln, 13, 288, 291, 322–23 Human Rights Campaign Fund, 68;

Prelude to Victory,
69

Hunter, Nan, 61
n
3 Hygeburg, 290

Hyman, Paula, 182

Hysteria, 28–29

Immigration Restriction League, 127 Intifada, 155, 157; and Women in

Black, 160

Inversion, 58–60

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), 149, 157–58

Itzkovitz, Daniel, 87
n
9, 261
n
6, 270,

282
n
14, 321, 358, 364
n
26

Jaeger, Gustav: and the role of aroma in attraction, 102, 118
n
80; and the “supervirile man,” 97, 102

Jakobsen, Janet, 8–9, 16, 261
n
6

James, Henry:
The American Scene,
266, 268, 273; on language, 274; on male

beauty, 272–73; in New York, 267–68,

271; on Sarah Bernhardt, 274–75,

283
n
24; on Yiddish theater, 12, 269

Jewish American Princess (JAP), 25, 33,

83, 84, 258–60

Jewish differend, 365, 368, 378–79 Jewish National Fund, 158

Jim Crow laws, 79

Joyce, James, 33;
Ulysses,
35, 36, 351 Jung, C. G., 91

Kabbalah, 201–2, 212, 214, 218–19,

223
n
35; sexual symbology of, 201 Kaplan, Alice, 17
n
5, 37, 182

Kazanjian, David, 174

Kincaid, James, 320–21

Knesset, 149, 152; subcommittee on gay

rights, 153 Konigsberg, Ira, 144
n
21

Kristeva, Julia, 337, 354, 360

Kulturvolker, 91, 105

Kushner, Tony, 241

Lacan, Jacques, 166, 178, 186–87, 295, 307
n
50

Laclau, Ernesto,
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy,
66

Lebanon War, 154, 155

Leopold and Loeb: academic interests of, 130; assimilation, 133; attempts to evade capture, 128; defended by Clarence Darrow, 121, 133, 134–37,

139–40; homosexual relationship

between, 129, 132, 138–39, 144
n
42;

and the Hulbert-Bowman report, 137–39; infantilization of, 136–37; interrogation and confession, 128–29; investigation of, 143
n
21; murder of Bobby Franks, 123–24; parole hearing of, 148–49
n
92; phrenology and, 130–31; popular culture representations of, 122; psychoanalytic evaluations of, 127–28, 131; relationships with classmates, 129–30; scholastic achievements of, 126; trial of, 134–36, 139; wealthy backgrounds

of, 134, 135, 146
n
60, 331
n
25

Leviticus, 324

Lissauer, Ernst, 177

Lorde, Audre, 399

Losey, Joseph,
Mr. Klein,
38 Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 127 Ludlam, Charles, 12, 277–79, 284

McCarthyism, 74

Malinowski, Bronislaw,
Sex and Repression in Savage Society,
112
n
8

Mannerbund, 90–91, 94, 98, 103, 104,

106; in Freud, 110–11; and National

Socialism, 107–8, 112, 118
n
87 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay,

and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, 1993, 65, 68, 69, 70

Marlowe, Christopher,
Jew of Malta,
33

Marranism, 199, 219, 221
n
11, 354

Mattachine Society, 74

Melamed, Dr. S. M., on Leopold and Loeb, 133

Messiah ben Joseph, in
Ulysses,
36

Messiah son of David, 201, 211–15, 222
n
25; in
Ulysses,
36

Messiah son of Ephraim, 201, 211–12,

215

Miller, D. A., 41, 61
n
1, 62
n
20, 249, 327, 332
n
37

Misnagdim, 234

Moon, Michael, 12 Mosse, George, 1–2, 16
n
3

Mouffe, Chantal,
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy,
66

Much, Rudolf, 107

Munroe, Hector Hugh (Saki), 31 Musil, Robert:
The Man Without

Qualities,
114
n
24 Muskeljuden, 10, 151, 157–58

Myerson, Abraham, 125

Nathan of Gaza, 200

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 68;

Marching for Freedom,
68–69 National Socialism (Nazism), 27, 75–76,

398; and Cocteau, 369; in film, 38; and Mannerbund, 112, 118
n
87

Naturvolker, 91, 101, 105

Oedipus complex, 90, 108, 113
n
11, 171 Orthodox Judaism, sheitl, 34

Ostjuden, 178, 192
n
32; defined, 92

Particularism, 324–26

Peace movements: Israeli, 161–62 Pellegrini, Ann, 2, 79, 82, 142
n
18,

189
n
15, 262
n
6

Periodicity, 29, 32, 109, 207, 339, 361
n
9

Peters, Carl,
The Founding of German East Africa,
106

Phallic narcissism, 201, 202, 215–17 Postone, Moishe, 87
n
10; and the

Holocaust, 75–76

Post-Zionism, 153–54, 156

Prell, Riv-Ellen, 258, 265

Press, Jacob, 12

Proust, Marcel, 30, 56, 58, 87, 337; on Dreyfus, 345, 361
n
12; Esther imagery in, 337; Jewish identity of, 342–43,

355, 363
n
17, 379; on Jewishness,

354–56, 358–59;
La Prisonnière,
50, 362
n
14;
A la recherche de temps perdu,
48, 50, 335, 340–54, 358–59;
Sodom

et Gommorrhe,
338

Psychoanalysis, 91; and colonialism, 167; denounced by Hans Bluher, 95; labeled “Jewish Science,” 93, 175; as tool in Leopold and Loeb trial, 135

Purim, 54; plays, 268

Racine,
Esther,
48–51, 62
n
11 Rathenau, Walter, 29, 32, 177

Reform Act of 1832, 312, 313

Reich, Wilhelm, 201

Rich, Adrienne, 60

Ritual murder, 287–88, 292, 304
n
10, 322–23, 330
n
25; affiliated with sodomy, 289–90; in Thomas of Monmouth, 287–89

Robert, Marthe, 176

Romanticism, 46

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 76, 372

Rosenstock, Bruce, 11

Rowland v. Mad River Local School District,
44, 45, 61
n
3

Sabbatian movement, 199–201, 210–11

Sappho, 130

Sandrow, Nahma, 266

Sartre, Jean-Paul:
Anti-Semite and Jew,

203, 208; “The Childhood of a

Leader,” 37, 182

Scalia, Antonin, 65

Schnitzler, Arthur, 176

Schurtz, Heinrich, 90, 104;
Age Classes and Male Bands,
103, 118
n
87;
Early History of Culture,
103

Scott, James, 167, 182–83

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 8, 16
n
2, 201,

204, 206, 210, 217, 243–44
n
17, 337,

344–46, 360; on Jewishness, 334–35,

354, 358

Seidman, Naomi, 12

Sergeant Perry J. Watkins v. United States Army,
57

Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana, 190
n
24 Shakespeare, 58;
As You Like It,
21, 23,

25; cross-dressed female characters in, 19, 20, 23; Jewish stereotypes in, 33;

The Merchant of Venice,
33, 35,

264
n
45;
Twelfth Night,
20, 25

Sharoni, Simona, 157

Shylock, 30, 33–34, 318; performed by female children, 35; performed by females, 34–35; in twentieth-century productions, 34

Sicular, Eve, 245
n
31, 283
n
18

Singer, I. B., 24–26, 31; “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,” 7, 19, 20, 25–27

“Sissy boys,” 57, 58

Society for the Protection of Personal Rights (SPPR), 152, 155, 158–59;
see

also
Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals in Israel

Sodomy: in early modern Europe, 289–90, 300–1, 304
n
13;

decriminalization in Israel, 152; in late Medieval Spain, 207–8; and the Supreme Court, 57

Solomon, Alisa, 10, 241, 245
n
32

Spinoza, 105

Steakley, James, 59–60

Stein, Gertrude, 276

Sternhell, Zeev: on kibbutzim, 154;
The Founding Myths of Israel,
154

Stieg, Gerald, 172

Stonewall, 41, 85

Streisand, Barbra: as belle juive, 257; in

Funny Girl,
84, 246–48, 250–52, 254,

257–58, 260; Jewish identity of, 7,

83, 247, 253; star persona of, 246,

248, 254; in
Yentl,
19, 20–27, 31

Sumptuary laws, 27–28

Theatre of the Ridiculous, 277 Trachtenberg, Stanley, 361
n
9 Transsexuality, of Dana

International, 150

Transvestism, 19; associated with figure of immigrant, 22; in
Cabaret,
37–38; in
La Belle et la bête,
367; in
Ulysses,
35; in
Yentl,
23, 25, 27

Varnhagen, Rahel, 191–92
n
29 Victimization, 398–99, 402

Wagner, Richard, 373, 389
n
18 Wandering Jew, 37, 108

Wandervogel, 96, 101, 103

Webb, Beatrice, 325–26

Weimar Republic, 29

Weininger, Otto, 4, 29, 32, 172–73; in Freud, 168–70, 188
n
8, 189
n
15;
Sex

and Character,
28, 102, 120
n
114, 143
n
20

Weschler, Israel, 126

Wilde, Oscar, 130, 269

Wildman, Stephanie, 66–67, 69–71 Wilhelm II, Kaiser. 94, 114
n
26 Windsor Theatre, 268, 273

Winter, Sarah,
Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge,
116
n
48

Wolf, Stacy, 12, 83–84

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 66

Words of His Own,
155

World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations, 158

Yellin, Jean Fagan, 87

“Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” (Singer), 19, 20, 25–27

Yiddish theater, 266–68, 281; homosexuality in, 271; leading performers in, 272

Zevi, Sabbati, 200–1, 210–12, 222
nn
22, 30; as Messiah son of David, 212–15

Zionism, 3, 150–51, 153, 156–57, 160;

American perceptions of, 165
n
28; and the Holocaust, 158; and homosexuality, 151, 152; Herzlian, 2, 151, 156

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