Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Transforming Jews on Television
5. 1 Rebooting Jewish Television 19
6. 2 “Happy Yom Kippur”: Televising and Translating Atonement 36
7. 3 Melancholy and Joy: Jewish Nomadism and Transparent 52
8. 4 The Historiography of Transparent 67
9. Part II Performing Judaism and Jewish Identity
10. 5 Dancing Out the Torah: Ritual, Bodies, and Transitions in Transparent 83
11. 6 From Oy to Hineni: Language and Transition in Transparent 98
12. 7 Pfefferman’s Complaint: Transparent and the Tenacity of Jewish Familial Stereotypes 114
13. 8 The Gentile, the Demonic, and Collapsing Binaries in Transparent 130
14. Part III Transgressing and Queering Gender
15. 9 Nostalgia, Queer Time, and the Ethnic in Transparent 143
16. 10 Don’t All Have Your Family: The Critique of Religion in Transparent 156
17. 11 From Beautiful Rabbi to Queer Kohenet: Gender and Judaism in and beyond Transparent 174
18. Part IV Queering Jewish and Transgender History: Three Perspectives on Transparent’s Use of the Holocaust
19. 12 Queer Temporality in Trans Times: Connection and Belonging in Transparent’s Second Season 199
20. 13 Queering the Holocaust: Intersecting Jewish and Transgender Identities in Transparent 214
21. 14 Making Jewishness Transparent and Transparent Jew-ish 229
22. Part V Concluding and Transitioning
23. 15 Run from Your Parent’s House: Transfeminism and Abraham’s Blessing 247
24. 16 La-La- Lech- Lecha: Transparent’s Musical Finale 262
25. Conclusion 271
26. Acknowledgments 275
27. Selected Bibliography 277
28. Notes on Contributors 279
29. Index 283