Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies, 1870-1960 (Historical Gender Studies)

Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies, 1870-1960 (Historical Gender Studies)
by: Andreas Kraß (Author, Editor),Moshe Sluhovsky(Editor),Yuval Yonay(Editor)&0more
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 15 Oct. 2021
Language:English
Print Length:300 pages
ISBN-10:3837653323
ISBN-13:9783837653328
Book Description
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 and Mandatory Palestine (1870-1960). While the first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria 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 dance critic Giora Manor (1926-2005).
About the Author
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 and Mandatory Palestine (1870-1960). While the first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria 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 dance critic Giora Manor (1926-2005).