The Jewish Queer Continuum in Yeshiva Narratives
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The yeshiva narratives in two Jewish gay male novels produced at the turn of the new millennium—<i>The Same Embrace</i> (1998) by US author Michael Lowenthal and <i>Mourning and Celebration</i> (2009) by Canadian writer K. David Brody—imagine Jewish intellectual life as a new site of identification for queer Jews. In these works of fiction, the image of the yeshiva signifies an affective community that responds to the limitations of mainstream gay and Jewish cultures. This type of representation differs from dominant, normative constructions of Jewishness and queerness, from heteronormative and homonormative models of desire. The <i>hevruta</i>, as a study partnership and as a form of erotic, sexual, and romantic intimacy, performs the function of an alternative, nonheteronormative Jewish family. It is organized around a "text" model of queer desire, where the Torah mediates the homoerotic connections of male students or scholars to one another, forming an "erotic triangle" between the text and the study partners. This construction resists dominant binary discourses by arranging the sexual and the affective, the erotic and the religious as a Jewish queer continuum.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it