Prof. Sarah Imhoff led a discussion at Queen’s University titled “Validity and Invalidity: Jessie Sampter, Zionism, and Disability.” Imhoff’s book recent book examined the life of Jessie Sampter, the early twentieth-century American Zionist writer who moved to Palestine in 1919. While Zionism celebrated the strong and healthy body, Sampter spoke of herself as “crippled” from polio and was plagued by weakness and sickness her whole life and wrote of homoerotic longings we would consider queer today.
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