Nahum Norbert Glatzer Livres

Critical presentation of the whole evidence concerning Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 BC to AD 135; with updated bibliographies.

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.'With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a power struggle between father and son ends with the father passing an enigmatic judgement on the helpless son. The third story, In the Penal Colony, explores questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. These three stories are flanked by two very different works. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant mood-pictures, while in the autobiographical Letter to his Father, Kafka analyses his difficult relationship in forensic and devastating detail. For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.Table of contents: MeditationThe JudgementThe MetamorphosisIn the Penal Colony(Autobiographical) Letter to his Father

This collection of 78 memoir entries, written as a document for his family, offers personal glimpses of Nahum Glatzer (1903-1990) -- prolific scholar, Brandeis University professor, and editor of the Schocken publishing house. This text is divided into three sections, focusing on a wide range of his experiences. Anecdotal and often times humorous accounts of the many outstanding personalities Glatzer knew and interacted with (including two of the leading German-Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century Martin Buber and Franz Rosenweig) are included. Glatzer's travels from Bodenbach to Boston and from strict orthodoxy to more historical, cultural, and aesthetic understanding of Judaism reveal a sensitivity to his surroundings as well as his inner self. The final section presents a variety of Glatzer's experiences and expressions of faith, both personal and social. The events themselves become moments of religious psychology or theological insight.