Table of Contents

Preface: Historicizing German-Jewish Subjectivity
1. Forget Assimilation: Subjectivity and German-Jewish History
2. Modernism Without Jews: A Counter-Historical Argument
3. The Secularization Question: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity
4. Edith Stein's Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits
5. Two Vultures: Freud Between "Jewish Science" and Humanism
6. Elsewhere in Austria: Jewish Writing between "Habsburg Myth" and "Central Europe Effect"
7. Max Brod's Homelands, Kafka's Patrimony
8. Kafka and Literary Modernism
9. The Law of the Letter: Kafka's Correspondence with Milena Jesenská
Index

About the Author

Scott Spector is Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan. He is author of Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle.

Reviews

Highly recommended.
*Choice*

Spector's book is required reading for all students of modernism and the German-Jewish contribution to this fraught moment in European history.
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