- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)
- Summary
- "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay offers an astonishing perspective on the history of modern Germany through the vantage point of a man with multiple identities who devoted his life to religious utopias, fought for homosexual rights, wrote gay fiction, converted from Judaism to Islam (one of the few of any faith to do so), and considered himself part of a spiritual elite that held the key to Germany's salvation. Born in Posen in 1880, the son of a Jewish industrialist, Hugo Marcus converted to Islam and chose the name Hamid; he became the most important convert in Germany while retaining his membership in the Jewish community. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938, where he was in the unique position of Muslim witness to the Holocaust. The imam of his mosque gained his release and he escaped to Switzerland, where he wrote gay fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus. He died in Basel in 1966. The book challenges deeply ingrained perceptions of Muslim-Jewish relations during World War II and illuminates their interconnected histories in modern Europe. It also tells the unknown story of Marcus' orientalized Islam that, in echoing Goethe's, revitalized an essential strand of Germany's spiritual heritage"--
- Series Statement
- Religion, culture, and public life.
- Uniform Title
- German, Jew, Muslim, gay (Online)
- Alternative Title
- German, Jew, Muslim, gay (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Goethe as pole star -- Fighting for gay rights in Berlin, 1900-1925 -- Queer convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925-1933 -- A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1939 -- Who writes lives: Swiss refuge, 1939-1965 -- Hans Alienus: yearning, gay writer, 1948-1965 -- Conclusion: a Goethe mosque for Berlin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- LCCN
- 2019032664
- OCLC
- ssj0002270582
- Author
Baer, Marc David, 1970-
- Title
German, Jew, Muslim, gay [electronic resource] : the life and times of Hugo Marcus / Marc David Baer.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
- Series
Religion, culture, and public life.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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