Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting

1. Queer Lines: Adrienne Rich and Kadya Molodowsky

2. Vanished Hellas and Hebraic Pain: Emma Lazarus and Anna Margolin

3. Waiting in Vain: Leah Goldberg and Anna Margolin

4. Heys Haunting: Poetics of Lesbian History

5. Community across Discontinuity

6. Translating Generations: Irena Klepfisz

Coda: Queering the Present of Jewish Literary History

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Zohar Weiman-Kelman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Reviews

"…the book contributes to research in women literary studies and is a valid example of applying queer theory." — Journal of Modern Jewish Studies"…more bold and far-reaching in its claims and aims than many of its precursors … Through her construction of a cross-temporal and cross-linguistic genealogy of Jewish women's poetry, Weiman-Kelman collapses the boundaries between theory and praxis in her own work, showing how scholarship can be a locus for political change." — In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies"Queer Expectations is one of the most original books of literary analysis, historiography, biography, and queer theory I have ever read. Its originality and its methodology turn traditional ways of thinking about literary analysis, questions of influence, and what queer can mean upside down. This is a truly brilliant book." — Evelyn Torton Beck, editor of Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, Revised and Updated Edition