Animal in the Synagogue Franz Kafka''s Jewishness

This book argues that both Franz Kafka's personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.

About the author

Dan Miron is Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Columbia University.

Summary

This book argues that both Franz Kafka’s personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Miron, Miron Dan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism
• EAN: 9781498595131
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9513-1
• Pages: 166
• Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Li; Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature; Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
• Subjects: Judentum, Karl Kraus, Brenner, Franz Kafka, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Max Brod, RELIGION / Judaism / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Prague, Milena, Judaism, Literature: history & criticism, Antisemitism, Hebrew, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Zionism, The Metamorphosis, The Trial, Yiddish Theater, The Castle, Bialik, Oppressive father, inhibited sexuality, fear of marriage, Herman Kafka, Jude-sein, Jewish self-empowerment, strange animals, Ottla Kafka-David, Jewish self-hatred, Selbstwher