| #1358516 in Books | 2010-10-19 | 2010-10-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.90 x1.55 x5.05l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A personal reading of Rodger Kamenetz' "Burned Books"|By Miha Ahronovitz|Rodger Kamenetz book is about my life too. And I did not write this book. But his observation that Kafka used a Talmudic thinking to write is documented brilliantly. His observation that Kafka lived an eternal Yom Kippur, being obsessed whether he is judged by every word he said, stemming from a perfecti|From Booklist|Whether he’s writing about Judaism and Buddhism or prayer and dreams, Kamenetz’s mission is to discern connections. In his most delving book, he traces the hidden links between a literary
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Rodger Kamenetz, acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus, has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their lives and writings, the more aware he became of unexpected connections between them. Kafka was a secular artist fascinated by Jewish mysticism, and Rabbi Nachman w...
You easily download any file type for your device.Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka (Jewish Encounters Series) | Rodger Kamenetz. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
