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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.
List of contents
Contents: Scott Spector, Prague Zionisms between the Nations. - Niels Bokhove, Kafka's Personal Zionism. - Hans-Richard Eyl, Kafka's State of Mind and the Making of the Jewish State. - Andreas B. Kilcher, Franz Kafka und Anton Kuh. - Vivian Liska, Nachbarn, Feinde und andere Gemeinschaften. - Iris Bruce, Jewish Education: Borderline and Counterdiscourses in Kafka. - Gabriel Moked, Kafka's Gnostic Existentialism and Modern Jewish Revival. - Eveline Goodman-Thau, Metamorphosis as Messianic Myth: Dream and Reality in the Writings of Franz Kafka. - Delphine Bechtel, Kafka, the >Ostjuden<, and the Inscription of Identity. - David A. Brenner, Kafka, Judaism, and Homoeroticism. - Benno Wagner, Kafka und der »Judenstaat«. - Gershon Shaked, Kafka and Agnon. - Alfred Bodenheimer, Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks. - Mark H. Gelber, The Image of Kafka in Brod's »Zauberreich der Liebe« and its Zionist Implications. - Ritchie Robertson, The Creative Dialogue between Kafka and Brod. - Shimon Sandbank, Lot's Wife, Kafka, Blanchot. - Mark M. Anderson, Virtual Zion: The Promised Lands of the Kafka Critical Editions.
About the author
Mark H. Gelber, geboren in New York, Studium an Universitäten in USA, Deutschland, Frankreich, Österreich, Israel. Seit 1980 an der Ben-Gurion Universität, Beer Sheva (Israel) tätig. Gastforscher bzw. Gastprofessur in USA, Österreich, Slowenien, Neuseeland, Belgien, Deutschland. Seit 2007 Leiter des Zentrums für österreichische und deutsche Studien, Beer Sheva. Veranstaltete zwei internationale Stefan Zweig Kongresse in Israel, sowie initiierte und mitorganisierte den ersten internationalen Stefan Zweig Kongress in Salzburg, 1992.
