Author: Grozinger, Karl Erich
Title: Kafka and Kabbalah
Description: New York, Continuum, (1994). orig.boards. 23x15cm, (4),231 pp, Translated by Susan Hecker Ray.. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Kafka & Judaism; 'The Trial' & the Tradition of the Gatekeeper in the Kabbalah; When & How the Celestial Court Functions; The Ecstatic Ascent to Heaven; 'No One Else Could Enter Here, For This Door Was Meant For You Alone'; The Gatekeeper Tradition as it Relates to the Description of the Court; The Status of Man vis-à-vis the Officers of the Court; The Human Face as a Reflection of Divine Judgement; The Kabbalistic Depiction of the Celestial Courts: History as Judgement; The Incursion of Judgement into Human Life: Disease & Dreams; "Women Have a Great Power": The Feminine Element in the Hierarchies of the Court; The Judgement Theme in Eastern Jewish Folktales: Kabbalah as Narrative; The Animal Stories; Divine Judgement via the World: "I Now Sentence You To Death By Drowning"; Language & Reality: Writing as a Form of Prayer; "Josephine the Singer, or,the Mouse People"; The Aphorisms: Between The Two Trees of Paradise; Kafka Without End: Yet Another Interpretation?

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Franz Kafka, Kabbalah, Cabbala, Jewish Mysticism, Judaism, , ,