Andreas Kraß, born in 1963, is a professor of German literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He specializes on premodern literature and the cultural history of sexuality.
Moshe Sluhovsky is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in early modern religious history, history of sexuality, and modern German-Jewish history.
Yuval Yonay is a professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. He specializes in sociology of knowledge, Palestinian-Israeli relationships, queer theory, and the history of homosexuality and gays in Palestine/Israel from 1940 to 1975.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945 29
Being a Jewish Lesbian in Berlin 77
Myth of the Homosexual Subculture in Weimar Germany? 97
Popular Entertainment in Central Europe as a Space for Jewish and Queer Migration Experiences 111
Gay German Jews and the Arrival of 'Homosexuality' to Mandatory Palestine 131
The Hebrew Lesbian 157
Magnus Hirschfeld in Palestine 183
Anne (Annie) Neumann: The New Woman 221
Jewish Homosexual Orientalism? 239
Queer Messianism 265
Giora Manor, the Kibbutz and the Transparent Closet 291
Contributors 311
Acknowledgments 315
List of Images 317
Index of Places 319
Index of Names 323