Marc David Baer

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231551786
• Artikelnr.: 57730515

Autorenporträt

Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (2008); The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (2010); and Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Goethe as Pole Star
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