The 36 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2022
Here is the list of the 36 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Tagged: FRanz Kafka
The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies by Stephen Shearier
A group of mostly Jewish German-speaking writers, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures in modern Western literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Egon...
The Animal in the Synagogue: Franz Kafka’s Jewishness by Dan Miron
The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka’s sense of being a Jew in the modern world and its literary and linguistic ramifications. It falls into two parts. The first is organized around the...
On the Threshold of a New Kabbalah: Kafka’s Later Tales by Walter A. Strauss
This is a study of the last phase in Kafka’s short career, concentrating on his intensive preoccupation with the problem of writing (and of self-regeneration): the attempt to link himself to the Jewish tradition...
