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Title: |
The Scattered Library |
| Sub-title: |
The Various Fates of the Remnants of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexual Science Collection in France and Czechoslovakia, 1932–1942 |
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| By (author): |
Hans P. Soetaert |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838218957 : 9783838218953 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
850 |
| Weight: |
1.108 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - January 2025 |
| List Price: |
62.00 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| The National Socialistsâ May 1933 Berlin book burning and, to a growing extent, their looting of Magnus Hirschfeldâ s Institute of Sexual Science (Institut fĂ"r Sexualwissenschaft) are part and parcel of memorial culture in Germany and around the world. Thanks to the ongoing rehabilitation of Magnus Hirschfeld (1868â 1935), and the revival of interest in his work, more people are now aware that this pioneering Jewish sexologist and LGBT-rights activist died in exile in Nice, France, profoundly traumatized by the destruction of his lifeâ s work. This is the very first book to offer a meticulously detailed report of the three years leading up to Hirschfeldâ s death in 1935 and, especially, the seven years following. This book is also the first biography of Karl Giese (1898â 1938) and Karl Fein (1894â 1942), the main players in the afterlife of Magnus Hirschfeld in France and Czechoslovakia, focusing on their dealings with the surviving materials of Hirschfeldâ s Institute, and the consequences of the decisions they made â or may have made â as Nazi terror deepened. Numerous, hitherto untapped archival sources are used to reveal vital new facts. On their basis, this book puts forward original explanations touching on the various fates of the remnants of Hirschfeldâ s Institute. It also offers the first account of the â miraculous rescueâ of Hirschfeldâ s guestbook (Magnus Hirschfelds Exil-Gästebuch 1933â 1935) from an old paper container in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1942. This seminal, generously illustrated book picks up the thread where Rainer Herrnâ s Der Liebe und dem Leid: Das Institut fĂ"r Sexualwissenschaft (2022), a history of Hirschfeld and his Institute from 1919 to 1933, left off. Its thorough documentation provides essential context for the facsimile edition of Hirschfeldâ s guestbook, published in 2019 by Hans Bergemann, Ralf Dose, Marita Keilson-Lauritz and Kevin Dubout. |
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