What if we read “queer” Eastern European Jews not through a Central European psychoanalytic lens, but through the analytic resources of Ashkenaz? Could queer studies approaches to Yiddish culture, in their reliance on Freudian and post-Freudian perspectives, have failed to see the full contours of traditional Jewish erotic systems?
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