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Eli Gale

Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Warwick

Thesis title:

Doykeit: Queer Jewish Diasporas in Theatre and Live Art in London and New York

    Doykeit: Queer Jewish Diasporas in Theatre and Live Art in London and New York takes the idea of doykeit as its central animating principle. Doykeit is the Yiddish word for “hereness,” a concept that created by the Jewish socialist organisation, the Jewish Labour Bund, at the end of the nineteenth-century under the Russian Empire to resist antisemitism and to foster workers solidarity in diaspora. Doykeit expresses the idea that Jewish people should be connected to their local community, live fully in the place they are physically present, be engaged in politics, and contribute to the country in which they live. Gale’s research proposes that queer Jewish theatre and live art—an art form that arguably lives in the hereness of the present in London and New York—offers an invaluable and unique lens for exploring queer Jewish diasporic identity and politics. 

Research Area

  • Drama and Theatre Studies

Publications

Lesbians are Miracles Magazine, Transformation & Rebirth No. 4 (2021)

Queer Shabbat Guide OneTable Website (2020)

MIRIAM Religion and Sexuality Journal, Concordia University (2019) 

Conferences

IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) Cologne 2025 - New Scholars Forum 

TAPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association) University of Warwick 2025 - Identity and Community Working Group 

Other Research Interests

Theatre and Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Jewish Studies



Memberships

International Federation for Theatre Research