Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition

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African American culture, 11–12, 116–17, 127–28, 130. See also Jazz Agnon, S. Y., 114 Ahad Ha-Am (Asher Ginzburg), 43, 45, 65– 66, 79, 82, 87–91, 111–12, 121–22, 125, 175, 177, 179–81, 195, 198–202, 205 Akiba, Rabbi, 113–14, 156–59, 162 Aleichem, Sholem, 47, 82–83 Alter, Robert, 18–19, 26, 172 Amerika Heute und Morgen, 106, 127–28 Anders, Guenther, 147 Andler, Charles, 50 Aramaic: elements in modern Hebrew, 179– 80; as language of Origen, 108; Talmudic strictures and, 41; as traditional Jewish language, 7 Arendt, Hannah, 20–21, 25–27 Atta Troll, 120 Ave-Lallement, Christian Benedict, 27 Baioni, Giuliano, 16 Balfour Declaration, 176 Band, Arnold, 76, 151 Bar-David, Yoram, 190 Barzel, Hillel, 36 Batnitsky, Leora, 36–37 Batuman, Elif, 208 Bauer, Felice, 37, 44–45, 65, 81, 87, 90, 181–82 Beck, Evelyn Tornton, 16, 132–34, 170 Beckett, Samuel, 67 Ben-Tovim, Puah, 2, 7, 171–75, 191, 195, 208 Ben-Tovim, Zalman, 171, 174–75 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 2, 171–73, 186–87, 189–92 Benjamin, Walter, 8, 19–21, 23–24, 26–28, 30–35, 37–38, 40, 43–44, 56–57, 61, 75, 103–5, 123, 132 Bergmann, Hugo, 43, 90, 110–12, 126–27, 173, 178, 190, 204 Berlin: cabaret scene and “Mistkäfer” act in, 119; Jewish People’s Home in, 204; Der Jude published in, 117; Kafka, Felice Bauer, and, 87; Kafka learns Hebrew in, 185; Kafka’s Hebrew letter to Puah BenTovim in, 173; as modernist center, 39; Scholem, Zionism, and, 44 Berlin, Irving, 128 Berlin Childhood Around 1900, A, 23 Bernheimer, Charles, 189 Berra, Yogi, 42 Biale, David, 26, 32 Bialik, H. N., 40–43, 82–84, 86–88, 92, 171 Bible, 6, 11, 31, 35–36, 39, 87, 93–94, 98, 101– 3, 107–8, 121, 124, 129, 133, 138–39, 147, 176, 188, 190–91, 193 Bin Gorion, Micha Josef, 59–60 Binder, Hartmut, 16 Blackface (minstrel shows), 6, 116, 120 Blei, Franz, 65 Börne, Ludwig, 49, 51 Breakdown and Bereavement, 196–97 Brenner, Yosef Haim: background to “The Judgment,” 65–66; as Hebrew text read by Kafka, 178; Kafka’s comment on, 171–72; transnational Hebrew perspective of, 196–97 Brentano, Clemens, 23 Brice, Fanny, 129 Brit Shalom, 26, 43–44 Brod, Max, 7–8, 16, 35, 46, 49, 52, 56, 58, 61 Bruce, Iris, 9, 90, 96, 121, 160, 171, 174 Buber, Martin, 4, 37, 78, 138 Bush, Frank (vaudeville comedian), 117 Casanova, Pascale, 14, 70, 88 Chaver, Yael, 178 Cohen, Israel, 175, 181 Cohen, Ted, 41 i n d e x 262 index “Cohen on the Telephone” (comedy routine), 186 Cold war and containment criticism, 16–20 Corngold, Stanley, 34, 147, 156 Czech language, 54 Czech nationalism, 17, 58, 63, 142 Damrosch, David, 19 Dan, Joseph, 151 David Copperfield (Dickens), 85 Delueze, Gilles and Felix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, 5, 13–18 Derrida, Jacques, 19, 108 Des Knabens Wunderhorn, 23 Deutsche Gaunerthum, Das (The German Underworld), 27 Dialect and language, distinguished, 58 Dichtung und Wahrheit, 47–49, 54 Eddon, Raluca, 26 Elisha ben Abuya (Talmudic figure), 113, 131, 159, 163, 167–68, 203 Elishe ben Avuye (Gordin play), 74, 156, 159– 60, 167–68, 203 Even-Zohar, Itamar, 178–79 Faynman, Zygmund, 75, 132 Fellman, Jack, 181 Fiedler, Leslie, 26 Frankfurt, Jewish accent in, 51–52. See also Mauscheln Freud, Sigmund, 71, 80–81, 86, 134 Fromer, Jakob, 11, 26, 112, 131, 137, 157, 158 German Jewish writing, 46–47, 49, 64, 99 German language, 25, 37–38; Benjamin on isolation and decline of, 8; as influence on Morris Rosenfeld, 95–96; Jewish love for, 93; as model for Ahad Ha-Am’s Hebrew, 180; Prague German, 9, 54–55; as rival of modern Hebrew in Palestine, 181; shared origins with Yiddish, 27ff., 50, 52, 64 Germanistik, 55, 74, 119 Gilman, Sander, 17 Ginzburg, Asher. See Ahad Ha-Am God, Man and the Devil, 73 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 37, 46–54; Goethe and Yiddish, 48–49; Kafka’s essay on, 110 Goldfaden, Abraham, 118 Goldstein, Moritz, 24–25 Gordin, Jacob, 73–74, 163, 203 Graetz, Heinrich (History of the Jews), 3 “Greater Germany,” 54 Grimm, Jacob, 9, 55–56, 155 Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm), 53, 60 Grimm, Wilhelm, 33, 49, 119 Grözinger, Karl Erich, 16, 144, 156, 161 Gurewitch, Morton, 196 Ha-Levi, Yehuda, 85–86, 94–95 Hanssen, Beatrice, 21 Harman, Mark, 176...