Burnt books
Subtitle: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
By: Rodger Kamenetz
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jewish encounters; Jewish encounters
Publisher: Nextbook; Schocken
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780805242577
Subjects: Hasidism; Cabala; Legends; Travel; Hasidim; History
Description: A dual portrait of Hasidic storyteller Rabbi Nachman and iconic writer Franz Kafka reveals unexpected parallels between their lives, tracing their respective writings about an illogical world and searches for spiritual meaning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The joke; title: The coffee mug; title: The waiting room : Wednesday, September 23, four days before Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2008; title: Kafka the kabbalist; title: Last request; title: Miraculous event; title: Wavering at the heights; title: Burnt books; title: The burning bush and the thorns; title: Fire from the rebbe's mouth; title: Tales of the seventy faces; title: Kafka's last parable; title: Sealed in flame; title: To feel at home; title: Borispol airport : Thursday, September 25; title: Who by water, who by fire; title: The rabbi's son; title: In his father's house; title: Annihilation of the self; title: On the train to Kamenetz : Thursday evening, September 25; title: Hasidic parables; title: King and messenger; title: Uncertainty principle; title: Talmudic style; title: Dirty and pure; title: Blue light of dawn : Friday morning, September 26; title: Kafka, Buber, Nachman; title: Sleeping and awakening; title: A new kabbalah; title: Circus acts; title: The turkey prince; title: Movements of the soul; title: Aliyah; title: Rabbi Nachman's journey to Kamenetz; title: The narrow bridge : Friday morning, September 26; title: Kings; title: Rabbi Nachman's journey to the land of Israel; title: The big joker; title: Uman Uman : Sunday, September 28-Monday, September 29; title: Smallness : Monday afternoon, September 29, just before Erev Rosh Hashanah; title: Self-isolation : Monday afternoon, September 29, just before Erev Rosh Hashanah; title: The thin thread of metal, the ball of wax; title: Return of the coffee mug : Wednesday evening, October 1.