Jews Queers Germans
ISBN-13: 9781609807382
Contributor(s): Martin Duberman
Subject: Historical Fiction
Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Publication Date: 09-03-2017
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
Set in a time when many men in the upper classes in Europe were closeted gay, Jews Queers Germans revolves around three men: Prince Philipp von Eulenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II's closest friend who becomes the subject of a 1907 trial for homosexuality; Magnus Hirschfeld, a famed Jewish sexologist; and Harry Kessler, a leading proponent of modernism, whose famous diaries allude to his own homosexuality. The central theme is the gay life of a very upper crust intellectual milieu that had a real impact on the major political upheavals that would shape the modern world.