It’s possible, even likely, that when W.W. Norton & Company decided to publish two fine new books about Magnus Hirschfeld –Daniel Brook’s “The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of ...

The Nazis called him “the most repulsive of all Jewish monsters.” One savvy American publicist called him “The Einstein of Sex.” He was world-famous for his claims that every human being mixes ...

In a world where most saw binaries of "us" and "them," Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld saw humanity as a seamless continuum of "we." Applying this insight first to sexual orientation, then to gender, and ...

This vital biography from journalist Brook (The Accident of Color) shines a light on forward-thinking German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was born in 1868. As a gay Jewish boy in Kolberg, Prussia, ...

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script ...