Nahum Norbert Glatzer Knihy

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

One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century - Elias Canetti on The TransformationA companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small number of Kafka's stories that he thought worthy of publication.This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and, A Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.Front cover drawing by Franz Kafka

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.