Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, CUNY. MARTIN DUBERMAN is the author of some two dozen books, including Paul Robeson; Cures; Black Mountain; the novel Haymarket (a Seven Stories book); Howard Zinn; Stonewall; and Hold Tight Gently. Duberman is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award (for his play In White America), three Lambda Literary Awards, a Special Award from The National Academy of Arts and Letters for his "contributions to literature," the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American HistoricalAssociation, and the Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in Non-Fiction. He has also been a Finalist for both the National Book Award (for James Russell Lowell) and the Pulitzer Prize (for The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein). In 2012 Amherst College awarded him an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters.
"Riveting. Stunning. By turns exhilarating and harrowing. At the
height of his imaginative and interpretive powers, award-winning
author Martin Duberman elaborates the rich, complex promises and
perils of German life and politics in advance of World Wars I and
II, with ghostly echoes reverberating across the Atlantic to this
very day." —John Howard, author of White
Sepulchres and Men Like That
"With a bold, grand vision and an unparalleled grasp of the endless
details that make up the arc of history, Martin Duberman elucidates
and illuminates how sex, art, hatred, violence, and intrigue shape
a national politic. His sprawling canvas here—populated by Kaiser
Wilhelm II, Isadora Duncan, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Ernst Röhm among
many others—is late nineteenth century to pre–World War II Germany.
The implications and resonances of this story are, however,
frighteningly contemporary. Sweeping and poetic, minutely observed
and realistic, Jews Queers Germans is a brilliant window
to the past that shows us the present and possibly the future."
—Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United
States and Professor of Practice in Media and Activism at
Harvard University
“In the new and daring novel/history Jews Queers Germans, Martin
Duberman unleashes his awesome powers to tell a story of
friendship, friction, and the flourishing of homosexual
relationships during the belle époque. Focusing on Kaiser
Wilhelm of Germany and his closest friends, Duberman’s creative
narrative allows us to eavesdrop on some of what might have been
their private conversations while we also witness rising public
intolerance toward Jews and queers in Germany. As always, Duberman
engages and illuminates the past brilliantly while providing
guidance for the present.” —Marcia M. Gallo, author of “No One
Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban
Apathy
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