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German, Jew, Muslim, Gay - The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (Paperback)
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German, Jew, Muslim, Gay - The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (Paperback)
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 42
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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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