Arnold Zweig und Magnus Hirschfeld (Berlin und Palästina) = Arnold Zweig and Magnus Hirschfeld (Berlin and Palestine)
The poet Arnold Zweig and the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, two German-Jewish atheists, are compared in their views on the emancipation of Jews and homosexuals in the 20th century. Without knowing about each other, the two visited Palestine in 1932, where they grappled with Zionism and the idea of a...
| Subtitles: | "Themenheft: 'Fraktale Räume und jüdische Lebensformen während der Frühen Neuzeit' (Hg. von Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein und Sabine Ullmann)" Arnold Zweig and Magnus Hirschfeld (Berlin and Palestine) |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2023
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| In: |
Aschkenas
Year: 2023, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 195-217 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Zweig, Arnold 1887-1968
/ Hirschfeld, Magnus 1868-1935
/ Berlin
/ Palestine
/ Zionism
/ Homosexuality
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism KBB German language area KBL Near East and North Africa NCF Sexual ethics TJ Modern history TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | The poet Arnold Zweig and the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, two German-Jewish atheists, are compared in their views on the emancipation of Jews and homosexuals in the 20th century. Without knowing about each other, the two visited Palestine in 1932, where they grappled with Zionism and the idea of a Jewish state. Zweig's reflections on Palestine are expressed in his 1932 novel "De Vriendt kehrt heim," while Hirschfeld's "Weltreise eines Sexualforschers," published in 1933 in Swiss exile, formulated his ambivalent, ultimately negative attitude toward Zionism. Zweig lived and worked in Palestine, despite all his reservations, until the founding of the State of Israel. Hirschfeld, who was almost twenty years older, died in France in 1935. Hirschfeld's lifelong fight against the persecution of homosexuals was supported by Zweig in many ways, but in the last decades of Zweig's life, as a member of the Jewish community in East Berlin, he almost completely faded into the background of his cultural-political activities. |
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| ISSN: | 1865-9438 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aschkenas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/asch-2023-2001 |