German, Jew, Muslim, Gay - The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

Hugo Marcus (1880¿1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus¿s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Goethe as Pole Star
1. Fighting for Gay Rights in Berlin, 1900–1925
2. Queer Convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925–1933
3. A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933–1939
4. Who Writes Lives: Swiss Refuge, 1939–1965
5. Hans Alienus: Yearning, Gay Writer, 1948–1965
Conclusion: A Goethe Mosque for Berlin
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (2008); The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (2010); and Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (2020).

Summary

Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.

Product details

• Authors: Marc David Baer
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2020
• EAN: 9780231196710
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19671-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, European History, Germany, Biography, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Religion & politics, Gay & Lesbian studies, Religion and Politics, Biography: writers, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics