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New essays providing an up-to-date picture of the engagement of
artists, philosophers, and critics with Kafka's work. The topic of
"Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of
artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with
Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the
engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and
represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot,
Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays
contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with
this topic. An essay on major trends in current Kafka criticism
provides background for several essays on novelists, philosophers,
and critics whose relationship to Kafka is not very well known. A
section devoted to Kafka from an Israeli perspective includes
artists not commonly known in the US or Europe (Ya'acov Shteinberg,
Hezi Leskly, Sayed Kashua), as well as an essay on the recent trial
in Israel regarding the fate of Kafka's literary legacy. A final
section addresses important contemporary approaches to Kafka in
film studies, animal studies, the graphic novel, and in postmodern
culture and counterculture. Contributors: Iris Bruce, Stanley
Corngold, AmirEngel, Mark H. Gelber, Sander L. Gilman, Caroline
Jessen, Tali Latowicki, Michael G. Levine, Ido Lewit, Vivian Liska,
Alana Sobelman. Iris Bruce is Associate Professor of German at
McMaster University. Mark H. Gelber is Senior Professor and
Director of the Center for Austrian and German Studies at
Ben-Gurion University.
In the wake of the Nazi regime's policies, European Jewish cultural
property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books,
manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners
and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell
prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation.
Until today, a significant amount of items can be found in private
and public collections in Germany as well as abroad with an unclear
or disputed provenance. Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural
Property after 1945 illuminates the political and cultural
implications of Jewish cultural property looted and displaced
during the Holocaust. The volume includes seventeen essays,
accompanied by newly discovered archival material and
illustrations, which address a wide range of topics: from the
shifting meaning and character of the objects themselves, the
so-called object biographies, their restitution processes after
1945, conflicting ideas about their appropriate location, political
interests in their preservation, actors and networks involved in
salvage operations, to questions of intellectual and cultural
transfer processes revolving around the moving objects and their
literary resonances. Thus, it offers a fascinating insight into
lesser-known dimensions of the aftermath of the Holocaust and the
history of Jews in postwar Europe.
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