The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

"Queer Mikveh": Queering A Traditional Jewish Water Ritual

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Rebekah Erev, artist, describes their film and project: Queer Mikvah: A Water Ritual. The film approaches the Jewish ritual through a queer perspective as an excluded group, and recreates, queers, the ritual through art and performance.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rebekah Erev.

This excerpt is in English.

Rebekah Erev was born in Vorhees, New Jersey in 1978.