Series: Historical Gender Studies

When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and community in Palestine. Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Ma – Biographies and Geographies, 1870–1960 offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe...

In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the Jewish Other. Ulrike Brunotte explores how these processes came about by addressing imaginative, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. She analyzes how literature, psychoanalysis and the performing arts traverse and react to the ambivalence of racialized stereotypes. The femininity puzzle presents...