The Animal in the Synagogue: Franz Kafka’s Jewishness (Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature) Hardcover – September 6, 2019 9781498595131
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- Publisher : Lexington Books (September 6, 2019)
- Language : English
- Binding : Hardcover
- Hardcover : 166 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1498595138
- ISBN-13 : 9781498595131
- Weight : 15.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.28 x 0.74 x 9.31 inches
9781498595131 / The Animal in the Synagogue: Franz Kafka’s Jewishness (Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature) Hardcover – September 6, 2019
by Lexington Books (September 6, 2019) (Author)The second part of the book focuses on Kafka’s place within the complex of Jewish writing of his time in all its three linguistic forms: Hebrew writing (essentially Zionist), Yiddish writing (essentially nationalistic but not committed to Zionism), and the writing, like his, in non-Jewish languages (mainly German) and within the non-Jewish religious and artistic traditions which inhered in them. The essay deals in detail with Kafka’s responses to contemporary Jewish literatures, and his pessimistic evaluation of those literatures’ potential. Essentially, Kafka doubted the sheer possibility of a genuine and culturally tenable compromise (let alone synthesis) between Jewishness and modernity.
The book deals with topics and some texts that the flourishing, ever expanding Kafka scholarship has either neglected or misunderstood because most scholars had no real background in either Hebrew or Yiddish studies, and were unable to grasp the nuances and subtle intentions in Kafka’s attitudes toward modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature and their paragons, such as the major Zionist Hebrew poet H.N. Bialik or the Yiddish master Sholem Aleichem.
Specification: The Animal in the Synagogue: Franz Kafka’s Jewishness (Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature) Hardcover – September 6, 2019 9781498595131
| Weight | 15.3 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 6.28 × 0.74 × 9.31 in |
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