German, Jew, Muslim, Gay : : The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus / / Marc David Baer.
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp befo...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Religion, Culture, and Public Life ;
42 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 |
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Summary: | Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. He was a gay man who never called himself gay but fought for homosexual rights and wrote queer fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus during his decades of exile.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. Baer explores how Marcus created a unique synthesis of German, gay, and Muslim identity that positioned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an intellectual and spiritual model. Marcus’s life offers a new perspective on sexuality and on competing conceptions of gay identity in the multilayered world of interwar and postwar Europe. His unconventional story reveals new aspects of the interconnected histories of Jewish and Muslim individuals and communities, including Muslim responses to Nazism and Muslim experiences of the Holocaust. An intellectual biography of an exceptional yet little-known figure, German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231551786 9783110710977 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704730 9783110704525 |
DOI: | 10.7312/baer19670 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Marc David Baer. |