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The Queer Death of the Hanged Dog

The 1677 Execution of Mary Higgs’ Mongrel

Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey

for destroying animals involved in bestiality found their basis in biblical texts, fears of crossbreeding, and attempts to maintain the boundaries between humans and animals, the dog's execution, I argue, effectively queers the ritual by destabilizing

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Eugene Heimler

A Hero of the Twentieth Century

Miriam Bracha Heimler

where he was married to his childhood sweetheart, Eva. From the heaven of his past he was taken down to a present of bestiality, brutality and blood-thirstiness. Together with all the Jews of his hometown, he was taken to Auschwitz, Tröglitz, Berga

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Talking My Way In

Reflections on the Journey of a Lesbian Feminist Queer Rabbi

Elli Tikvah Sarah

the active subject throughout is the male (with a curious exception of bestiality) 13 – we have to look to Sifra, a work of halakhic Midrash, which comments on the Book of Leviticus, to find the first reference. Referring to the ‘laws’ of Egypt and

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Shylock in Buchenwald

Hanan Snir’s Israeli-German Production (Weimar 1995)

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger

represented by placing her atop two stacked tables, singing a Yiddish lullaby. This was followed by the stages of base gentile debauchery and bestiality as the now Nazified Jessica in a male SS uniform fled her home and crawled towards Lorenzo, as a

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Randolph Roth

officials. There was also a strong correlation between everyday homicides and the number of individuals banished, exiled, or executed for heresy, witchcraft, or moral offenses (adultery, bestiality, pederasty, etc.)—a measure of hostility, division, and

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Philo of Stockholm

The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis

Göran Rosenberg

helplessly before unbridled bestiality … In the end, we stand in the same place: that which happened fifteen hundred years before our common era in Egypt can also happen and is happening before our very eyes in the year 1933, in almost the same form, with the

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An Otaku with Chinese Characteristics?

Localizing Japanese ACG Currents in Lu Yang's The Beast

Fred Shan

Evangelion serves as a limiter and control on humanity's innate bestiality while, for The Beast, it augments the body's natural functions to construct the posthuman subject. The Beast and Evangelion's divergent treatments of technology derive from

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Companions and Villains

Reading about Boys in Early Twentieth-Century Girl Scout and Camp Fire Girl Series Fiction

Jennifer Helgren

nature to culture, from bestiality to humanity, from homosocial pack life to individual self-reliance and heterosexual prowess—that is, from boyhood to manhood” (ibid.: 7). The best boy characters reflect the Boy Scouting movement's hypothesis that

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Something Gleaming

Exemplary Resistance and the Shadows of Complicity

Bronwyn Leebaw

in shared public life. ‘What rewards can there be for those that lost their lives for refusing to acquiesce to the bestiality and mindlessness around them?’ Broz asks, when such stories are disregarded and ‘[n]o streets or city squares will be named

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Shakespearean Boars and Dolphins

Representing Character through Animal Dreams in Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra

Claude Fretz

of inquiry, studies of animal symbolism in Shakespeare's dream images continue to tilt heavily towards a single play, namely A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), with Bruce Boehrer, for example, suggesting that the play is ‘patently about bestiality