Friday the Rabbi Wore Lace: Jewish Lesbian Erotica [Paperback]

Karen X. Tulchinsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 1998

In true Jewish tradition, this book features literate, steamy erotica told with humor, heart, and chutzpah.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

We read some works of fiction to escape from ourselves, and others to find ourselves. Whether Jewish lesbians will tear through this erotic anthology in a rapture of self-recognition, I can't say, but aside from the occasional ecstatic reference to noodle kugel, there is nothing here to exclude or disorient other readers. In fact, one would hardly know one was reading Jewish lesbian erotica if it weren't for the book's subtitle and an odd recurrence of bagels. Tulchinsky, editor of the recent anthology To Be Continued, argues in her introduction that Jewish lesbian erotica can mean almost anything, because everything that Jewish dykes do is informed by their identity. As a result, she has chosen 13 stories that range from the pedestrian to the astonishing--Caril Behr's placidly outrageous "Ofra and Tal" is worth the price of the book--in which Jewishness glimmers and fades, sometimes in the foreground, sometimes only in a chance detail or an implication. --Regina Marler

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press; 1st edition (October 29, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573440418
• ISBN-13: 978-1573440417
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,445,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen X. Tulchinsky is an award winning author and screenwriter. Her first book, IN HER NATURE won the VanCity Book Prize, BC's largest literary award. Her most recent novel, THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES LAPINSKY was a Toronto Book Award Finalist and winner of the ONE BOOK ONE VANCOUVER PRIZE. She has edited ten literary anthologies including Queer View Mirror, the Hot and Bothered series and To Be Continued. She has had six screenplays in development. Her screenplay I SHOT THE SHERIFF a western set in 1860 is being produced this summer. She has also written for Television series, including Robson Arms, The Guard, Glutton for Punishment and Kink.

Her directorial debut, MS THING has screened in over a dozen film festivals internationally and won AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD at Queer Fruits Film Festival, Australia.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the writing is fine, but this book is too ahead of our time, December 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Friday the Rabbi Wore Lace: Jewish Lesbian Erotica (Paperback)

Now when I found this book, please mark my words: my life are not the same. This book is brilliant but too soon for our century. but yet it is very good book to read when the childrens are not watching you.