This volume contains the lectures delivered at an international conference in Israel devoted to the topic of Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Zionism. Kafka's interests in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish Nationalism and his various relationships to his Zionist friends and his participation in Jewish national and Zionist-related activity are explored from a number of different critical vantage points. Likewise, his writings are considered within the specific framework of Jewish nationalism and Zionism.

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Contents: Scott Spector, Prague Zionisms between the Nations. - Niels Bokhove, Kafka's Personal Zionism. - Hans-Richard Eyl, Kafka's State of Mind and the Making of the Jewish State. - Andreas B. Kilcher, Franz Kafka und Anton Kuh. - Vivian Liska, Nachbarn, Feinde und andere Gemeinschaften. - Iris Bruce, Jewish Education: Borderline and Counterdiscourses in Kafka. - Gabriel Moked, Kafka's Gnostic Existentialism and Modern Jewish Revival. - Eveline Goodman-Thau, Metamorphosis as Messianic Myth: Dream and Reality in the Writings of Franz Kafka. - Delphine Bechtel, Kafka, the >Ostjuden<, and the Inscription of Identity. - David A. Brenner, Kafka, Judaism, and Homoeroticism. - Benno Wagner, Kafka und der »Judenstaat«. - Gershon Shaked, Kafka and Agnon. - Alfred Bodenheimer, Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks. - Mark H. Gelber, The Image of Kafka in Brod's »Zauberreich der Liebe« and its Zionist Implications. - Ritchie Robertson, The Creative Dialogue between Kafka and Brod. - Shimon Sandbank, Lot's Wife, Kafka, Blanchot. - Mark M. Anderson, Virtual Zion: The Promised Lands of the Kafka Critical Editions.