German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
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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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 Seiten) |
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spelling | Baer, Marc David 1970- Verfasser (DE-588)137025262 aut German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer New York, NY Columbia University Press [2020] © 2020 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Religion, Culture, and Public Life Band 42 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 In English Marcus, Hugo 1880-1966 (DE-588)116763728 gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / Europe / Germany bisacsh Gay men Germany Biography Holocaust survivors Germany Biography Jews Europe History 20th century Muslim converts from Judaism Germany Biography Muslims Europe History 20th century (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Marcus, Hugo 1880-1966 (DE-588)116763728 p 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-0-231-19670-3 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-0-231-19671-0 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551786 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
spellingShingle | Baer, Marc David 1970- German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marcus, Hugo 1880-1966 (DE-588)116763728 gnd HISTORY / Europe / Germany bisacsh Gay men Germany Biography Holocaust survivors Germany Biography Jews Europe History 20th century Muslim converts from Judaism Germany Biography Muslims Europe History 20th century |
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title | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus |
title_auth | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus |
title_exact_search | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus |
title_exact_search_txtP | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus |
title_full | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer |
title_fullStr | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer |
title_full_unstemmed | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer |
title_short | German, Jew, Muslim, Gay |
title_sort | german jew muslim gay the life and times of hugo marcus |
title_sub | The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus |
topic | Marcus, Hugo 1880-1966 (DE-588)116763728 gnd HISTORY / Europe / Germany bisacsh Gay men Germany Biography Holocaust survivors Germany Biography Jews Europe History 20th century Muslim converts from Judaism Germany Biography Muslims Europe History 20th century |
topic_facet | Marcus, Hugo 1880-1966 HISTORY / Europe / Germany Gay men Germany Biography Holocaust survivors Germany Biography Jews Europe History 20th century Muslim converts from Judaism Germany Biography Muslims Europe History 20th century Biografie |
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