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Author : Iris Bruce
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299221904
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Author : Martin Wasserman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : 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
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : 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
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : 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 : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199238553
For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.
Author : Benjamin Balint
Publisher : Picador
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : 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 : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107085497
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Author : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 110703762X
Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.
Author : June O. Leavitt
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2012
Category : 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 : Ernst Pawel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 1992-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374523355
A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.