NLMagazine/Antwerp, International Studies - Online lecture in English and via Zoom of the Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)
Kafka: Reinvented for our time of plague and antisemitism
Prof. Dr. em. Sander L. Gilman – Emory University, Atlanta Sunday 16 June 2024 at 18h CEST
On the occasion of the centennial of Kafka’s death a three-day symposium at the University of Antwerp from June 16-18, 2024 will explore new approaches to this question he asked himself in different ways throughout his life.
Although his early readers such as Max Brod, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Margarete Susman and Hannah Arendt pointed to the importance of Kafka’s Jewish background and its relevance for his writings, this focus is still largely viewed as marginal within the vast domain of Kafka scholarship. In recent decades, however, many books and articles have dealt with Kafka’s relationship to Judaism, Jewishness, Zionism, the Bible and the Talmud, Hebrew and Yiddish, Kabbalah, Hasidism and more.
The Antwerp symposium will chart and reconsider the Jewish dimensions of Kafka’s life and writings in light of new findings, theoretical approaches and historical developments.
Full program and symposium registration link available here.
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