Interview of Ari Brostoff

NYC Trans Oral History Project

Ari Brostoff is an author and editor at Jewish Currents magazine. In this interview, they recount reading Jewish historical fiction as a child growing up in California. After attending college on the East Coast, where they spent time engaging with queer theory texts from the 1990s, Ari moved to New York and quickly became embedded in organizing work. They were involved with Beyond the Pale, an anti-Zionist radio program, and, during the pandemic, started working as a tenant organizer. Ari also discusses the shifting landscape of work on the overlap between Judaism and transness, as well as their own experiences with politics and transitioning.