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.
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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.