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Conditio Judaica 15 Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte Herausgegeben von Hans Otto Horch in Verbindung mit Itta Shedletzky The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature Edited by Hans Jürgen Schrader Elliott M. Simon Charlotte Wardi Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen 1996 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnähme The Jewish self-portrait in European and American literature l hrsg. von Hans Jürgen Schrader ... - Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996 (Conditio Judaica ; 15) NE: Schrader, Hans Jürgen [Hrsg.]; Conditio ludaica ISBN 3-484-65115-6 ISSN 0941 -5866 © Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Tübingen 1996 Das Werk einschließlich aller seiner Teile ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Verlages unzulässig und strafbar. Das gilt insbesondere für Vervielfältigungen, Übersetzungen, Mikroverfilmungen und die Einspeicherung und Verarbeitung in elektronischen Systemen. Printed in Germany. Gedruckt auf alterungsbeständigem Papier. Druck: Weihert-Druck GmbH, Darmstadt Einband: Hugo Nadele, Nehren Dedication The editors dedicate this collection of essays on The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature in memory of Professor Chaim Shoham A distinguished scholar of Jewish and European literature, a valued colleague and a dear friend. Conditio Judaica 15 Tuvia Ruebner, Some Remarks Concerning Kafka the Jew. In: Schrader et al. (eds.), The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature (1996) Corrigenda-Zettel p. 126,6 from below, read: But only because cat and lamb ... p. 128,6 from below, read: If Benjamin calls the whole corpus of Kafka's work parables, and claims that Hagada raises a weighty paw against Halacha and the traditional form has to be more than it is, we suppose that Halacha, in spite of all, must be there. And if Gershom Scholem, concentrating mainly on the content, maintains that Kafka's writings testify to God's hidden countenance in our world - Hesster panim -, let us emphasize that it is God's hidden face. Kafka's parables are parables: Halacha and God exist somewhere - and at the same time they aren't parables. They are ways which have lost their goals. Finally let us consider a last ingredient in this outstanding fictional work ... p. 130,6 from below, read: This is probably the essence of Kafka's arspoetica ... p. 131,15 from above, read: Truth and lie are connected like the vermin and Gregor Samsa. Although Kafka's only way to tell us anything, and his only way to live as a writer (and he didn't want anything else) was through language, he speaks of language as: ... p. 132,5 from below, read: Berachot, Israel's release ... p. 133,4 from below, read: „Josephine or the mouse-folk" with all the unquestioned ... Inhalt Dedication V Introduction l Hans-Jürgen Schrader Fichtenbaums Palmentraum. Ein Heine-Gedicht als Chiffre deutsch-jüdischer Identitätssuche 5 Thomas Sparr " Verkannte Brüder". Jüdische George-Rezeption 45 Margarita Pazi Franz Werfel zwischen Selbstdarstellung und Wunschvorstellung 55 Chaim Schatzker Die Jugendliteratur als Sozialisationsagentur 73 Robert Alter Kafka äs Kabbaiist 83 Hillel Barzel Kafka' s Jewish Identity: A Contemplative World-view 95 Marina Cavarocchi Arbib Images of the Jew and Judaism: Kafka and the "Prager Kreis" 109 Tuvia Ruebner Some Remarks Concerning Kafka the Jew 125 VIII Elliott M. Simon Betrayal and Redemption: The Transcendent Jew in the Works of Kazantzakis, Joyce and Bellow 135 Noam Flinker The Dying of the Light: American Jewish Self-Portrayal in Henry Roth and Robert Mezey 147 Sigurd Paul Scheichl Is Peter Kien a Jew? A Reading of Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fe in its Historical Context 159 Silvia Schlenstedt Versteckte Unglücke und Freisetzen von Erinnerung. Zeichen des Selbstverständnisses sozialistischer Autoren jüdischer Herkunft in der deutschen Literatur nach 1945 171 Sybille Hubach Das Krumme und das Gerade. Überlegungen zu Alexander Granachs Autobiographie Da geht ein Mensch 187 Lorant Kabdebo Käroly Pap's Vision of the Jews 211 Hanna Yoaz Self-Portrait of the Jew - The Reflection on the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewish Poets Today 217 Karin Lorenz-Lindemann Wieviel Heimat braucht der Mensch? Aspects of Jewish self- determination in the works of Jean Amery and Primo Levi 223 Zipora Kagan The Blind Spot of Jewish Self-Identity in the Work of M. J. Berdyczewski 231 Leah Hadomi "Posing the Problem of Utopia": Stefan Heym and Schwarzenberg 237 Monique Jutrin Benjamin Fondane: Portrait of a Jew and a Poet 247 IX Irene Tieder Peter Weiss: Das Selbstporträt eines wandernden Juden 257 Verzeichnis der Autoren 269 Personenregister 271

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