Sarah Imhoff is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism.

“Sarah Imhoff presents the remarkable story of Jessie Sampter, whose life breaks with all the conventional associations of a Zionist pioneer. Disabled due to polio, living with a woman in mandate-era Palestine, and a pacifist and internationalist with right-wing Zionist politics, Sampter violated expectations and flouted conventions. Using feminist theory and crip theory, Imhoff reconstructs Sampter’s life and the vital challenges she presented in her day and in our own.” - Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College "Sarah Imhoff’s The Lives of Jessie Sampter is a thought-provoking exploration ... [Imhoff's] attention to method and multifaceted storytelling succeed in getting us closer to understanding all of Sampter’s complex queer, disabled, and Zionist lives."- Adrienne Krone (Material Religion) "The Lives of Jessie Sampter is a master class in superb and scintillating writing. Imhoff engages deeply with queer theory and disability studies yet manages to distill them to their core and render them readily intelligible, such that the book serves as an excellent introduction to disability studies for Jewish studies scholars.' - Hannah Zaves Greene (American Jewish History)

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction  11. A Religious Life  272. A Life with Disability  683. A Queer Life  1064. A Theological-Political Life  1445. Afterlives  193Notes  223Bibliography  249Index  263

Sarah Imhoff is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism.

“Sarah Imhoff presents the remarkable story of Jessie Sampter, whose life breaks with all the conventional associations of a Zionist pioneer. Disabled due to polio, living with a woman in mandate-era Palestine, and a pacifist and internationalist with right-wing Zionist politics, Sampter violated expectations and flouted conventions. Using feminist theory and crip theory, Imhoff reconstructs Sampter’s life and the vital challenges she presented in her day and in our own.” - Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College "Sarah Imhoff’s The Lives of Jessie Sampter is a thought-provoking exploration ... [Imhoff's] attention to method and multifaceted storytelling succeed in getting us closer to understanding all of Sampter’s complex queer, disabled, and Zionist lives."- Adrienne Krone (Material Religion) "The Lives of Jessie Sampter is a master class in superb and scintillating writing. Imhoff engages deeply with queer theory and disability studies yet manages to distill them to their core and render them readily intelligible, such that the book serves as an excellent introduction to disability studies for Jewish studies scholars.' - Hannah Zaves Greene (American Jewish History)

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction  11. A Religious Life  272. A Life with Disability  683. A Queer Life  1064. A Theological-Political Life  1445. Afterlives  193Notes  223Bibliography  249Index  263

Sarah Imhoff is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism.

“Sarah Imhoff presents the remarkable story of Jessie Sampter, whose life breaks with all the conventional associations of a Zionist pioneer. Disabled due to polio, living with a woman in mandate-era Palestine, and a pacifist and internationalist with right-wing Zionist politics, Sampter violated expectations and flouted conventions. Using feminist theory and crip theory, Imhoff reconstructs Sampter’s life and the vital challenges she presented in her day and in our own.” - Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College "Sarah Imhoff’s The Lives of Jessie Sampter is a thought-provoking exploration ... [Imhoff's] attention to method and multifaceted storytelling succeed in getting us closer to understanding all of Sampter’s complex queer, disabled, and Zionist lives."- Adrienne Krone (Material Religion) "The Lives of Jessie Sampter is a master class in superb and scintillating writing. Imhoff engages deeply with queer theory and disability studies yet manages to distill them to their core and render them readily intelligible, such that the book serves as an excellent introduction to disability studies for Jewish studies scholars.' - Hannah Zaves Greene (American Jewish History)

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction  11. A Religious Life  272. A Life with Disability  683. A Queer Life  1064. A Theological-Political Life  1445. Afterlives  193Notes  223Bibliography  249Index  263