About the Author

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.