Keshet as part of UK LGBT History Month 2015: ways that the Jewish LGBT community has adapted ritual and ceremony

Searle Kochberg

Keshet as part of UK LGBT History Month 2015: ways that the Jewish LGBT community has adapted ritual and ceremony

Searle Kochberg

School of Creative Technologies

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Abstract

This article is part of the Keshet UK charity's LGBT History Month leaflet 2016. It charts my experience as an ethnographic filmmaker when filming LGBT Jewish ritual in London, in my PhD work, for "Rainbow Jews" (National Lottery funded) and "Ritual Reconstructed" (AHRC funded) from 2011 thru to 2015.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	LGBT History Month
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2016

Keywords

film
Jewish LGBTQI
connected communities
cine ethnography

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2 Article
1 Abstract
1 Digital or Visual Products

Reconstructing Rituals: using bricolage to (re)negotiate faith bases rituals within the Jewish LGBT+ community
Kochberg, S. & Greenfields, M., Jul 2016.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

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Ritual Reconstructed, 2014-2015
Kochberg, S., 1 Nov 2016, In: Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. 4, 2, p. 186-191 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Filming for the ritual reconstructed project
Kochberg, S., Aug 2015, Visual Sociology Newsletter, 10, p. 14-17 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Open Access
Ritual Reconstructed: PRIDE Seder
Kochberg, S., Kinnaird, D. & Robertson, L. P., 24 Nov 2015
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

Open Access
Ritual Reconstructed: Purim Discussion: focus group with the LGBT+ social actors/ participants
Kochberg, S., 24 Nov 2015
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Keshet as part of UK LGBT History Month 2015: ways that the Jewish LGBT community has adapted ritual and ceremony

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Reconstructing Rituals: using bricolage to (re)negotiate faith bases rituals within the Jewish LGBT+ community

Ritual Reconstructed, 2014-2015

Filming for the ritual reconstructed project

Ritual Reconstructed: PRIDE Seder

Ritual Reconstructed: Purim Discussion: focus group with the LGBT+ social actors/ participants

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