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The Self Struggling To Be Seen: A Review of “Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism”

Chaim E. Bromberg’s 2020 review examines Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism (2019), edited by Alan Slomowitz and Alison Feit. The central argument is that LGBTQ individuals in Orthodox Jewish communities struggle not simply with their sexual or gender identities, but with the deeper challenge of being recognized, accepted, and allowed to exist fully within a religious tradition that often has difficulty acknowledging their identities.

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