1676435018

German, Jew, Muslim, gay : the life and times of Hugo Marcus / Marc David Baer

Englisch

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

© 2020

xii, 300 Seiten

Includes bibliographical references

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Baer, Marc David, 1970-, German, Jew, Muslim, gay], 2021

Rezensiert in: Angermann, Asaf *1978-*: German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. By Marc David Baer, 2021

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Baer, Marc David: German, Jew, Muslim, Gay. - New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2020. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 Seiten)

978-0-231-19671-0 paperback

978-0-231-19670-3 cloth

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-231-55178-6 (Fernzugriff) ebook

9780231196710

*Marcus, Hugo *1880-1966* / Europa / Judenvernichtung / Überlebender / Islam / Konversion / Homosexuellenbewegung

*Marcus, Hugo -- 1880-1966 ; Gay men -- Germany -- Biography ; Muslim converts from Judaism -- Germany -- Biography ; Holocaust survivors -- Germany -- Biography ; Jews -- Europe -- History -- 20th century ; Muslims -- Europe -- History -- 20th century ; Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HQ75.8.M326

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 306.76/62092 ; B;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NQ 2360: N Geschichte / NQ Geschichte seit 1918 / NQ 1760-NQ 2540 Drittes Reich / NQ 2160-NQ 2360 Innere Geschichte / NQ 2340-NQ 2360 NS-Terror / Judenverfolgung / Antisemitismus im Dritten Reich (Judenfrage)

"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"--