Joy Ladin

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Joy Ladin , née Jay Ladin (* 1961 in Rochester , New York ) is an American writer and literature professor. She is the first official transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish college. She has two daughters and one son.

Life

Ladin earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York in 1982 , a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995, and graduated from Princeton University in 2000 .

Ladin was classified as male at birth. After her permanent employment in 2006, she decided to undergo gender reassignment surgery . In 2007 Ladin changed her gender and changed her first name from Jay to Joy. She divorced her children's mother, Christine Benvenuto , with whom she had been married for more than twenty years. When she publicly admitted her step, she was given leave of absence from the university. In the meantime, she taught poetry at her alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College.

In 2009 Ladin published the anthology Transmigration , the first collection of poems that she published under her new name.

In April 2011 the Jewish Theological Seminary of America held a “Yom Iyyun”, a so-called “Day of Learning”, on the subject of LGBTQ and its relation to Judaism . Ladin took part in this event and talked about her life.

In 2012 she published her autobiography Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders .

By 2012 she published 5 volumes of poetry and an autobiography.

Awards

In 2009, Ladin took part in the final selection for the Lambda Literary Award . She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies . She was also a 2012 Fulbright Fellow for teaching at Tel Aviv University .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joy Ladin: Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders . 1st edition. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-299-28730-6 .
  2. ↑ Guest Speakers ( Memento from March 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Joy Ladin , Huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013. 
  4. ↑ a b c d Yevgeniya Traps: Joy Ladin, the first trans professor at Yeshiva, discusses her transition, her travails, and her new memoir . Capital New York. March 16, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Yeshiva University provides the highest quality Jewish and secular education of any Jewish university in the world. Our commitment to Torah Umadda means striving for excellenc . Yu.edu. May 14, 2013. Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 5, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yu.edu
  6. ↑ Joy Ladin - Forward 50 - . Forward.com. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  7. ^ Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving. St. Martin's Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-312-64950-0 .
  8. ^ Gender change and a family's undoing: Shutesbury woman's memoir stirs controversy . Amherst Bulletin. Archived from the original on December 30, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  9. ↑ Yeshiva University - workplace of Joy Ladin | Jewish Women's Archive . Jwa.org. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  10. ↑ Elicia Brown: Ode To Joy Ladin . The Jewish Week. November 27, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  11. ↑ Wishing Joy Nachas . Jvoices.Com. September 10, 2008. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  12. ↑ A Transsexual at Yeshiva University - . Forward.com. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  13. ^ Joy Ladin: Through the door of life: a Jewish journey between genders. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2012, ISBN 978-0-299-28730-6 .
  14. ^ Joy Ladin - Gender and the Syntax of Being: Identity and Transition . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  15. ↑ Joy Ladin . Jewishbookcouncil.org. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Ladin, Joy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ladin, Jay (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and literature professor, first official transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish college
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York