Max Strassfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 126463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Strassfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Strassfeld |
| SIGNATURE | STRASSFELD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Religious Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex
Envisioning a New Sinai
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
Transing Religious Studies
Transing Religious Studies Max Strassfeld (bio) Keyword bathroom bills, Mary Daly, transgender, transmisogyny When Joy Ladin transitioned in 2008, a media firestorm erupted. Ladin is a tenured professor of English at Yeshiva University, which bills itself as the oldest university in the United States to combine Jewish and secular learning. She was hailed in the media as the first transsexual teaching in an Orthodox yeshiva. The response from the …
Translating the Human
Discussions of gender variance abound in rabbinic literature, a corpus of canonical Jewish texts that originate in the first six centuries of the common era. This article reads the most central text on the androginos, a person who is described by the rabbis as having dual genitalia. Both English and Hebrew are languages that ostensibly require the assignment of male or female; I discuss the challenges of translating the androginos while not forec…
Transing Religious Studies
Transing Religious Studies Max Strassfeld (bio) Keyword bathroom bills, Mary Daly, transgender, transmisogyny When Joy Ladin transitioned in 2008, a media firestorm erupted. Ladin is a tenured professor of English at Yeshiva University, which bills itself as the oldest university in the United States to combine Jewish and secular learning. She was hailed in the media as the first transsexual teaching in an Orthodox yeshiva. The response from the …
Translating the Human
Discussions of gender variance abound in rabbinic literature, a corpus of canonical Jewish texts that originate in the first six centuries of the common era. This article reads the most central text on the androginos, a person who is described by the rabbis as having dual genitalia. Both English and Hebrew are languages that ostensibly require the assignment of male or female; I discuss the challenges of translating the androginos while not forec…
Transing Religious Studies
Transing Religious Studies Max Strassfeld (bio) Keyword bathroom bills, Mary Daly, transgender, transmisogyny When Joy Ladin transitioned in 2008, a media firestorm erupted. Ladin is a tenured professor of English at Yeshiva University, which bills itself as the oldest university in the United States to combine Jewish and secular learning. She was hailed in the media as the first transsexual teaching in an Orthodox yeshiva. The response from the …
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
Envisioning a New Sinai
And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)