Kabbalah and Literature

Kitty Millet is Professor of Comparative Jewish Literatures and Holocaust Studies, as well as Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies, at San Francisco State University, USA. She also is the editor of the Bloomsbury Series, Comparative Jewish Literatures. She is also chairperson of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) research committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature. She is author of The Victims of Slavery, Colonization, and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Preliminary Remarks- Kabbalah in Fiction- Literature, Mimesis, Fictional Genealogies- Scholem’s “Metaphysics” of Kabbalah and Literature- Parsing the Kabbalah in Modern FictionPart 1. The Other's Path and the Redemption of Ben Aher1. Jacob Frank, "Heretic of Kabbalah"2. Heretics and Heresies of Innovation3. Heinrich Heine, Poet/Prophet of the "Innovated Text"4. Kafka, Prophet of Failure5. Being and Nothingness: The Matter of GolemsPart 2. Letter Phenomenologies of Modernist Kabbalahs6. Golems of Text and Bruno Schulz's "Interminable Aggadot"7. The "Absolute Object" in Argentino's Basement8. Lost Letters9. "There Must Be Other Songs beyond Mankind"Conclusion: Literature's Messianic MomentsNotesBibliographyIndex

[A] daring an innovative book.