Kafka’s “Jackals and Arabs”: Northern Perspectives on an Impossible Community

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction – What does Kafka have in Common with Jews? 1
5. Franz Kafka and the Russian Jews: Re-read in Our Time of Plagues and Anti-Semitisms 5
6. Harada: Kafka and the Nothingness of Judaism. A Minor Phenomenology of Jewish Facticity 29
7. Turning to the World: Kafka and the Bible 51
8. Kafka’s Cupboard. A Reading of his Nachlass (with a Remark by Peter Szondi) 65
9. Kafka’s (De-)Figurations of the Golem Myth 81
10. Kafka’s Hebrew Message. Before the Law of Homophonic Transmission 115
11. Franz Kafka as a Jewish Reader and Jewish Readings of his Work 135
12. Siegfried Kracauer Reading Franz Kafka 153
13. Kafka’s “Jackals and Arabs”: Northern Perspectives on an Impossible Community 169
14. History for an Ahistorical People: Kafka’s “Josephine, the Singer or the Mouse Folk” 189
15. Notes on Contributors
16. Index