The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews
eBook - ePub

The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews

A Memoir

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews

A Memoir

About this book

This is Rossi’s wild, queer coming-of-age story. Rossi was taught only to aspire to marry a nice Jewish boy and to be a good kosher Jewish girl. At sixteen she flowers into a rebellious punk-rock rule-breaker who runs away to seek adventure. Her freedom is cut short when her parents kidnap her and dump her with a Chasidic rabbi—a “cult buster” known for “reforming” wayward Jewish girls—in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Rossi spends the next couple of years in a repressive, misogynistic culture straight out of the nineteenth century, forced to trade in her pink hair and Sex Pistols T-shirt for maxi skirts and long-sleeved blouses and endure not only bone-crunching boredom but also outright abuse and violence.

The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews is filled with wonderfully rich characters, hilarious dialogue, and keen portraits of the secretive hothouse Orthodox world and the struggling New York City of the 1980s: dirty, on the edge, but fully vital and embracing.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2024
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781647427108
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Chapter 1. The Queen of the Jews
  6. Chapter Two. Escape From Meshuga Mountain
  7. Chapter 3. Not-So-Nice Jewish Girl
  8. Chapter 4. The End of the Party
  9. Chapter 5. Jailbird
  10. Chapter 6. The Velvet Couch
  11. Chapter 7. Life on Eastern Parkway
  12. Chapter 8. Machon Chana
  13. Chapter 9. The Rebbe
  14. Chapter 10. The Rebbe’s Wine
  15. Chapter 11. Shabbos
  16. Chapter 12. Mashey’s House for Shabbos
  17. Chapter 13. Pizza and Hummus
  18. Chapter 14. The Red Curtain
  19. Chapter 15. Danny
  20. Chapter 16. Moving Out
  21. Chapter 17. Manhattan
  22. Chapter 18. The Metal Etchings
  23. Chapter 19. The Billy-Club Boys
  24. Chapter 20. Homeless
  25. Chapter 21. The Ba’al Teshuva Sardine Can Apartment
  26. Chapter 22. Sex
  27. Chapter 23. Robby
  28. Chapter 24. Raquel
  29. Chapter 25. When Mom Tried Stabbing the Magnolia
  30. Chapter 26. Dannyville
  31. Chapter 27. Free to be You and Me
  32. Chapter 28. Macdougal Street
  33. Chapter 29. The Chasidic Double Date
  34. Chapter 30. Bringing the Fun on Kingston Avenue
  35. Chapter 31. Danny And The $500 Jackpot
  36. Chapter 32. The New York Times
  37. Chapter 33. The Kingston Chill
  38. Chapter 34. Electric War
  39. Chapter 35. Food
  40. Chapter 36. Tillytown
  41. Chapter 37. Harriet and the Egg Noodles
  42. Chapter 38. I Ain’t No Uncle Tom
  43. Chapter 39. Wolf Takes Kingston
  44. Chapter 40. No More Daniel Boone
  45. Chapter 41. Makeup and Maria
  46. Chapter 42. Peaches and Cream
  47. Chapter 43. Simon Says
  48. Chapter 44. Growing Up
  49. Chapter 45. Leaving Kingston
  50. Chapter 46. Harriet
  51. Chapter 47. The Riots
  52. Chapter 48. 1994
  53. Chapter 49. Finding My Jewish
  54. Chapter 50. La Familia
  55. Chapter 51. Breadcrumbs on the Path
  56. Chapter 52. Beef Stew
  57. Chapter 53. Passing the Torch
  58. Chapter 54. Old New York
  59. A Thousand Thank Yous.
  60. Mendel’s Song
  61. About the Author
  62. Selected Titles from She Writes Press

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