Kafka and Cultural Zionism
Author | : Iris Bruce |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299221904 |
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Author | : Iris Bruce |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299221904 |
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Author | : Martin Wasserman |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 152454373X |
Using a sociohistorical perspective, this work argues that Franz Kafkas parable, The Vulture, specifically depicts the plight of victimized European Jews as they encountered acts of anti-Semitism early in the twentieth century. Kafkas parable demonstrates that it would only be through adhering to a philosophy of cultural Zionism that European Jewry might ultimately survive the brutalities of anti-Semitic behavior.
Author | : Mark H. Gelber |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110934191 |
This volume contains the lectures delivered at an international conference in Israel devoted to the topic of Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Zionism. Kafka's interests in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish Nationalism and his various relationships to his Zionist friends and his participation in Jewish national and Zionist-related activity are explored from a number of different critical vantage points. Likewise, his writings are considered within the specific framework of Jewish nationalism and Zionism.
Author | : Scott Spector |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520236920 |
This cultural history maps the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the 20th century. It explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished.
Author | : Carolin Duttlinger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107085497 |
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Author | : Benjamin Balint |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-08-22 |
Genre | : Inheritance and succession |
ISBN | : 9781509836734 |
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of the twentieth century. By betraying Kafka's last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. But that betrayal also led to an international legal battle over which country could lay claim to Kafka's legacy: Germany, where Kafka's own sister perished in the Holocaust and where he would have suffered a similar fate had he remained, or Israel? At once a brilliant biographical portrait of Kafka and Brod and the influential group of writers and intellectuals known as the Prague Circle, Kafka's Last Trial offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts - brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political - that determined the fate of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled with Kafka's papers at the last possible moment from Prague to Palestine in 1939. It describes a wrenching escape from Nazi invaders as the gates of Europe closed; of a love affair between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a fascinating and hotly contested trial. Ultimately, Benjamin Balint invites us to question: who owns a literary legacy - the country of one's language and birth or of one's cultural and religious affinities - and what nation can claim a right to it.
Author | : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110703762X |
Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.
Author | : Saul Friedlander |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030019515X |
DIV Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence—in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka’s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world. In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka’s life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka’s dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka’s closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author’s novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka’s letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of “sainthood� frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality. /div
Author | : June O. Leavitt |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199827834 |
June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.
Author | : Samuel J. Spinner |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1503628280 |
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism—the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western peoples who were also subjugated and denigrated—was a powerful artistic critique of the modern world and was adopted by Jewish writers and artists to explore the urgent questions surrounding their own identity and status in Europe as insiders and outsiders. Jewish primitivism found expression in a variety of forms in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature, photography, and graphic art, including in the work of figures such as Franz Kafka, Y.L. Peretz, S. An-sky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Moï Ver. In Jewish Primitivism, Samuel J. Spinner argues that these and other Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present within Europe, challenged the idea of the threatening savage other from outside Europe on which much primitivism relied: in Jewish primitivism, the savage is already there. This book offers a new assessment of modern Jewish art and literature and shows how Jewish primitivism troubles the boundary between observer and observed, cultured and "primitive," colonizer and colonized.