عنوان

German, Jew, Muslim, gay

(Number (ISBN

0231551789

(Number (ISBN

9780231551786

Erroneous ISBN

9780231196703

Erroneous ISBN

9780231196710

Number

bc516

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

German, Jew, Muslim, gay

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the life and times of Hugo Marcus

First Statement of Responsibility

Marc David Baer

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2020]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)

Series Title

Religion, culture and public life

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: Goethe as pole star -- Fighting for gay rights in Berlin, 1900-1925 -- Queer convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925-1933 -- A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1939 -- Who writes lives: Swiss refuge, 1939-1965 -- Hans Alienus: yearning, gay writer, 1948-1965 -- Conclusion: a Goethe mosque for Berlin

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Text of Note

"German, Jew, Muslim, Gay offers an astonishing perspective on the history of modern Germany through the vantage point of a man with multiple identities who devoted his life to religious utopias, fought for homosexual rights, wrote gay fiction, converted from Judaism to Islam (one of the few of any faith to do so), and considered himself part of a spiritual elite that held the key to Germany's salvation. Born in Posen in 1880, the son of a Jewish industrialist, Hugo Marcus converted to Islam and chose the name Hamid; he became the most important convert in Germany while retaining his membership in the Jewish community. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938, where he was in the unique position of Muslim witness to the Holocaust. The imam of his mosque gained his release and he escaped to Switzerland, where he wrote gay fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus. He died in Basel in 1966. The book challenges deeply ingrained perceptions of Muslim-Jewish relations during World War II and illuminates their interconnected histories in modern Europe. It also tells the unknown story of Marcus' orientalized Islam that, in echoing Goethe's, revitalized an essential strand of Germany's spiritual heritage"--

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

22573/ctvzqp6qz

Stock Number

BD8A03B8-5802-41EC-B7C3-AEAC09D66442

Title

German, Jew, Muslim, gay

International Standard Book Number

9780231196703

Marcus, Hugo,1880-1966.

Gay men-- Germany, Biography.

Holocaust survivors-- Germany, Biography.

Jews-- Europe-- History-- 20th century.

Muslim converts from Judaism-- Germany, Biography.

Muslims-- Europe-- History-- 20th century.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary Figures

Ethnic relations

Gay men

HISTORY / Europe / Germany

Holocaust survivors

Jews

Muslim converts from Judaism

Muslims

Europe, Ethnic relations, History, 20th century.

Europe

Germany

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7

7

BIO-- 007000

BIO-- 031000

HIS-- 014000

REL-- 084000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Baer, Marc David,1970-

Date of Transaction

20210516044322.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

270410

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