Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine : : Biographies and Geographies / / ed. by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, Yuval Yonay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• Funder: German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
• MitwirkendeR: Afken, Janin,; Brom, Dotan,; Korbel, Susanne,; Krass, Andreas,; Laskowski, Piotr,; Lavie, Hilla,; Pretzel, Andreas,; Rozin, Yael,; Sluhovsky, Moshe,; Wolf, Benedikt,; Yaal, Orit,; Yonay, Yuval,
• HerausgeberIn: Kraß, Andreas,; Sluhovsky, Moshe,; Yonay, Yuval,
• Author: German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Historische Geschlechterforschung ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and communality in Palestine. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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