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. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. While the first section of the book presents queer geographies, including Germany, Austria, Poland and Palestine, the second section introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine including the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), the writer Hugo Marcus (1880-1966), and the artist Annie Neumann (1906-1955).

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.