Creator Bio
Gil Engelstein
b. 1986
Gil Engelstein is a historian of modern Europe specializing in the history of sexuality, political economy, and Jewish history. He holds a PhD in history from Northwestern University. His research traces how LGBTQ activists, workers, and thinkers in postwar Britain and West Germany navigated the relationship between consumerism and political organizing. Engelstein is currently working on a book project about transnational queer Jewish organizing in the 1970s and 1980s.
Content by Gil Engelstein
Guide
Jewish Queer Art and Writing in the Twentieth Century
20th CenturyJewish LGBT artists and writers struggled to reconcile belonging to communities in which they experienced both acceptance and exclusion.