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SEXOLOGY IN THE YISHUV: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF SEXUAL CONSULTATION IN TEL AVIV, 1930–39

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Liat Kozma
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In late 1931, German sexologist and gay-rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld, quoted above, visited Palestine for a lecture tour that attracted hundreds in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, and kibbutz Beit Alfa. By this time, the Jewish settlers' community (or Yishuv) in Mandate Palestine had already been exposed to the science of sexology and to the reform movement it inspired. Sexual-hygiene manuals had been translated into Hebrew and Yiddish in both Tel Aviv and Warsaw. Hebrew readers had access, for example, to translations of Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics and Max Hodann's A Boy and a Girl. Finally, in the fall and winter of 1931–32, three sex consultation centers were opened in Tel Aviv.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , May 2010 , pp. 231 - 249
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Author's note: I thank Leigh Chipman, Yaara Chotzen, Dafna Hirsch, Abigail Jacobson, Gady Kozma, Zachary Lockman, Goetz Nordbruch, Sherene Seikaly, and the anonymous readers for their comments on earlier versions of this article. I assume responsibility for all errors.

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87 Tova Berman, “Al Sibot ha-Hapalot ha- Melakhutiyot,” Ha-Refuʾah 38 (1 March 1945): 100.

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