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Still Reading Kafka? On Language, Literature, Friendship, and Identity in Central Europe
To pick up and read the novels or short stories of Franz Kafka hardly needs justification. His standing as one of the last century’s most important writers is assured. The question is: What can Kafka’s writings and the various contexts in which his life transpired—linguistic, familial, cultural, political—reveal about the textures of Jewish life in Central Europe at the turn of the century? In the 65th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture, Hillel Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis) revisits crucial aspects of Kafka’s life, work, and intellectual relationships, to explore what it meant to be both Jewish and a citizen of Prague before and after the First World War.
Learn more about the Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture: lbi.org/about/honors/leo-baeck-memorial-lecture
(This Event was recorded on May 21, 2024 at the Center for Jewish History)
Still Reading Kafka? On Language, Literature, Friendship, and Identity in Central Europe
To pick up and read the novels or short stories of Franz Kafka hardly needs justification. His standing as one of the last century’s most important writers is assured. The question is: What can Kafka’s writings and the various contexts in which his life transpired—linguistic, familial, cultural, political—reveal about the textures of Jewish life in Central Europe at the turn of the century? In the 65th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture, Hillel Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis) revisits crucial aspects of Kafka’s life, work, and intellectual relationships, to explore what it meant to be both Jewish and a citizen of Prague before and after the First World War.
Learn more about the Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture: lbi.org/about/honors/leo-baeck-memorial-lecture
(This Event was recorded on May 21, 2024 at the Center for Jewish History)
