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Kafka's Identity Politics.(Review)

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From: The Nation
Date: 20000522
Author:Reitter, Paul

 
Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz 
Kafka's Fin de Siecle. By Scott Spector. California. 331 pp. $45. 
 
The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and 
Its Discontents. By Ritchie Robertson. Oxford. 534 pp. $99.

Most Jews who began writing in German wanted to get away from Judaism...but their hind legs were still stuck to the Jewishness of their fathers, and with their front legs they could find no new ground. Their despair over this was their inspiration.

-Franz Kafka

In 1949 Germany celebrated Goethe's 200th ...

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