ISBN:
9780231196710
,
9780231196703
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 300 Seiten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Giles, Geoffrey J. [Rezension von: Baer, Marc David, 1970-, German, Jew, Muslim, gay] 2021
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Angermann, Asaf, 1978 - German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. By Marc David Baer 2021
Series Statement:
Religion, culture, and public life
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Baer, Marc David German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
DDC:
306.76/62092
Keywords:
Marcus, Hugo
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Gay men Biography
;
Muslim converts from Judaism Biography
;
Holocaust survivors Biography
;
Jews History 20th century
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Muslims History 20th century
;
Europe Ethnic relations 20th century
;
History
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
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Biografie
;
Biografie
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Marcus, Hugo 1880-1966
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Europa
;
Judenvernichtung
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Überlebender
;
Islam
;
Konversion
;
Homosexuellenbewegung
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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