„Nicht-jüdisch und nicht-nicht-jüdisch“

In the organizer's words:

On the trail of Kafka's Marranian Judaism

Galili Shahar (Brodt Foundation Visiting Professor at the Chair of Jewish History and Culture) in conversation with Kafka researcher Andreas Kilcher

Kafka's Jewishness is one of the more complex, albeit often discussed aspects. What made his closest contemporaries particularly puzzled was the fact that although he made it a topic in his diaries and letters from 1910 onwards, it remained absent in his literary texts. But really absent? A closer look reveals that although "Jewishness" is not addressed directly, it is certainly present in an indirect way through allusions, parables, displacements, etc. In this sense, Kafka's Jewishness has Marranian traits: it is not absent, but it is enigmatic and hidden.
An event organized by the Chair of Jewish History and Culture at LMU in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Munich

An event organized by the Chair of Jewish History and Culture in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Munich as part of the KAFKA2024 festival.