Coming Out of the Hasidic Closet: Jiří Mordechai Langer (1894–1943) and the Fashioning of Homosexual-Jewish Identity

This essay inaugurates the historical study of the modern homosexual Jewish experience before Stonewall. I begin with a historiographic introduction to the emerging subfield of gay Jewish history. I then turn to reintroduce Jiri Langer, a homosexual and Hasidic writer affiliated with the interwar &q...

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Main Author: Halper, Shaun Jacob (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2011
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2011, Volume: 101, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-231
Further subjects:B Homosexuality and Judaism
B Hans Blüher
B Franz Kafka
B Kabbalah
B Orientalism
B Hasidism
B German philosophy
B Czech Jewish literature
B Eastern Jews
B Jewish gender
B Psychoanalysis
B Jiri Langer
B Interwar Jewish Literature
B Georg Langer
B gay and Jewish
B queer Jewish studies
B Wandervogelbewegung
B sexology and Jews
B Max Brod
B Magnus Hirschfeld
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