Yom Kippur a Go-Go: A Memoir - Softcover

Roth, Matthue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573442194 ISBN 13: 9781573442190

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2005

Synopsis

The author offers a fascinating memoir about his youth as an Orthodox Jew growing up in a pop-culture obsessed, materialistic, highly distracting world, showing readers the often contentious relationship between the practice of religion and the demands of American culture. Original.

About this title

Synopsis

A high-energy, openhearted memoir of a young urbanite equally devoted to orthodox Jewish tradition and his go-go dancer girlfriend. Matthue Roth is an American original: an Orthodox Jew who cites Outkast and Michelle Tea among his influences, who won't touch a light switch on Shabbos but mimics a screaming orgasm onstage while reading his paean to Orthodox girls. From the World Bank riots to Thursday night tranny basketball in San Francisco's Dolores Park, Matthue takes readers on a journey through the queer and hip streets of urban America in his exuberant memoir, "Yom Kippur A Go-Go". With humour and insight, Roth describes the tension between contemporary life and the demands of faith. He falls in love and in lust with a panoply of girls, both strictly kosher and determinedly secular, to the accompaniment of mp3 rabbinical lectures on modesty ("Boys are nothing but perverts and filthy animals!").

About the Author

Matthue Roth has performed his poetry on Def Poetry Jam, at Rock the Vote events, and on three national solo tours. The author of the young adult novel Never Mind the Goldbergs. He lives in San Francisco.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573442194
• ISBN 13: 9781573442190
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268