Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine Biographies and Geographies Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, Yuval Yonay

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kraß, Andreas <p>Andreas Kraß, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Sluhovsky, Moshe <p>Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel</p>, Editor.

Yonay, Yuval <p>Yuval Yonay, Haifa University, Israel</p>, Editor.

German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Funder.

Series:

Historical gender studies ; Volume 3.

Historische Geschlechterforschung

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Homosexuality.

Queer.

Migration.

Mandatory Palestine.

Gender.

Religion.

Postcolonialism.

Gender History.

Queer Theory.

Jewish Studies.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

History.

Homosexuality.

Queer.

Migration.

Mandatory Palestine.

Gender.

Religion.

Postcolonialism.

Gender History.

Queer Theory.

Jewish Studies.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kraß et al. (eds.), Queer Jewish Lives Biographies and Geographies

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021

Biography/History:

Andreas Kraß, born in 1963, is a professor of German literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He specializes on premodern literature and the cultural history of sexuality.

Moshe Sluhovsky is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in early modern religious history, history of sexuality, and modern German-Jewish history.

Yuval Yonay is a professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. He specializes in sociology of knowledge, Palestinian-Israeli relationships, queer theory, and the history of homosexuality and gays in Palestine/Israel from 1940 to 1975.

Summary:

When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and community in Palestine. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. While the first section of the book presents queer geographies, including Germany, Austria, Poland and Palestine, the second section introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine including the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), the writer Hugo Marcus (1880–1966), and the artist Annie Neumann (1906-1955).

»This book is, undoubtedly, a groundbreaking step in the road to establishing a proper historiography of the local LGBTQ+ community. This project is always timely, but especially today, as queer existence in Israel is again under homophobic and anti-liberal threat. The book successfully conveys the importance of its starting point ‒ that of the queer Jewish experience in Central Europe ‒ to understand the origins of the LGBTQ+ community in Palestine/Israel.«

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

I. Geographies

Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945

Being a Jewish Lesbian in Berlin

Myth of the Homosexual Subculture in Weimar Germany?

Popular Entertainment in Central Europe as a Space for Jewish and Queer Migration Experiences

Gay German Jews and the Arrival of 'Homosexuality' to Mandatory Palestine

The Hebrew Lesbian

II. Biographies

Magnus Hirschfeld in Palestine

Anne (Annie) Neumann: The New Woman

Jewish Homosexual Orientalism?

Queer Messianism

Giora Manor, the Kibbutz and the Transparent Closet

Contributors

Acknowledgments

List of Images

Index of Places

Index of Names.

ISBN:

9783839453322

3839453321

OCLC:

1293253326

Publisher Number:

9783839453322