Kafka's Jewish Languages Orlando Ortega-Medina "King of the Delawares"

"King of the Delawares"

The Thomas Lee Hose (c 1660) at East Lyme

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Aristotle argues that piety provides us not only an awareness of our kinship to the divine

Kafka's Jewish Languages Orlando Ortega-Medina "King of the Delawares"After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel, and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. Kafka's Jewish Languages brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish