There will be a Q&A after the reading, followed by a book signing. He is the editor of A Rainbow Thread: An. He has taught about Jewish culture and history at academic and community venues around the world. Noam Sienna is a Jewish educator, artist, and doctoral candidate in History at the University of Minnesota.

His academic work has explored art, magic and gender and sexuality particularly among Jewish communities of the Islamic world. Noam Sienna is a Jewish educator, artist and doctoral student at the Unversity of Minnesota. Sponsored by the Community Relations Council and its LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee, Sienna will read selected stories from his collection of queer Jewish texts, “A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969.” Spanning two millennia, five continents, and containing translations from 15 languages, the book is a collection of more than 100 sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities. The book is organized historically in three sections: Premodern (first century CE-1500), early modern (1500-1900) and early 20 th century (1900-1969). The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island welcomes Noam Sienna to the Dwares Jewish Community Center on Feb. Edited by local scholar Noam Sienna with an introduction by the same Judith Plaskow who educated me 30 years ago, the book traces the threads of queer Jewish life from our earliest written records. Noam Sienna joins us to discuss the history of gender and sexuality across the arc of Jewish history, which he highlighted in his book A Rainbow Thread: An.

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