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Tables of Contents for Franz Kafka: a Question of Jewish Identity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
Franz Kafka -- the Jewish element in his life
Family and biographical background
3
6
Kafka - character and identity
9
8
A quest for the way back
17
8
The Yiddish theater
17
4
Zionism
21
4
The inner struggle for wholeness and authenticity
25
5
Kafka and Jewish self-hatred
30
9
The Jewish core in the rift between father and son
39
14
Max Brod and Marthe Robert -- the background of their philosophical approaches
Prague at the close of the 19th century - assimilated Jewish society at an impasse
53
7
Max Broad and his contemporaries
60
8
Brod and Kafka - a complex friendship
68
8
Paris in the mid-20th century
76
8
Marthe Robert and the scope of the literary work
84
8
Franz Kafka as a subject of research
92
7
Modes of Criticism
Literary criticism - an overview
99
9
Max Brod and Marthe Robert - two approaches to the work of Kafka
108
2
Relating to the text
110
13
Max Brod - editing as interpretation
110
7
Marthe Robert - translation as interpretation
117
6
The key to understanding
123
12
Max Brod - from the point of view of sacredness
123
6
Marthe Robert and the discovery of meaning through technique
129
6
Max Brod and the religious moment (a metaphysical view)
Kafka and religious belief
135
13
The supreme authority
148
11
Din and Hesed in the Kabbalistic sense
159
8
Art as a representation of religious belief
167
9
Kafka's work: a reflection of Jewish fate in the Diaspora
176
13
Marthe Robert and the duality of identity (psychoanalytical-structural approach)
Kafka's work as a self-reflecting fictional mirror
189
10
Kafka and the Jewish name
199
8
Existential duality - a malady of identity
207
7
Symbols and criticism of symbols
214
6
Language as a foreign element (a foreigner in the language)
220
13
Summary
233
6
Endnotes
239
18
Bibliography
257
10
Index
267
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