Jolie Fille de Perth, La, by Georges Bizet

  Jordaens, Jacob (1593–1678), Flemish painter

  Journalisten, play by Gustav Freytag

  Journey Through Planetary Space, A, by the French author, Jules Verne (1828–1905)

  Judas, tragedy by Gerdt von Bassewitz

  ‘Judgement, The’, by Franz Kafka, n 52

  Jüdinnen, by Max Brod

  Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich (1740–1817), German Pietist writer

  Jungfern vom Bischofsberg, by Gerhart Hauptmann, n 2

  Kabale und Liebe, play by Freidrich Schiller

  Kainz, Josef (1858–1910), great Austrian actor

  Karl Stauffers Lebensgang. Eine Chronik der Leidenschaft,by Wilhelm Schäfer

  Keller, Gottfried (1819–90), Swiss poet and novelist

  Kellermann, Bernard (1879–1951), German novelist

  Kerner, Justinus (1786–1862), German poet

  Kestner, Johann Christian (1741–1800), a legation secretary; prototype of Albert in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Werther

  Khol, František (1877–1930), Czechoslovakian writer and historian, n 66

  Kierkegaard, Søren (1813–55), Danish philosopher, n 58

  Kinkel, Walter (1871–), German neo-Kantian philosopher

  Kisch, Egon Erwin (1885–1948), Jewish author and journalist from Prague, n 34

  Kleist, Heinrich von (1777–1811), German dramatist, n 62

  Knaben Wunderhorn, Des, collection of German folk songs edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano

  Kol Nidre, by A. M. Scharkansky

  Konkurrenz, by Ozkar Baum

  Körner, Karl Theodor (1791–1813), German poet

  Kraus, Karl (1874–1936), Austrian-Jewish publicist and editor of Die Fackel

  Kreutzer Sonata, The, by Leo Tolstoy

  Kropotkin, Prince Peter Alexevich (1842–1921), Russian anarchist author, n 60

  Kubin, Alfred (1877–1959), Sudeten German painter and draughtsman

  Kühnemann, Eugen (1868–1946), German literary historian

  Kunstwart, Der, Munich art magazine edited by Ferdinand Avenarius

  Kusmin, Michail (1875–1936), Russian poet and novelist

  Kvapil, Jaroslav (1868–1950), Czech dramatist

  Laforgue, Jules (1860–87), French symbolist poet, n 6

  Lagerlöf, Selma (1858–1940), Swedish author

  Lasker-Schüler, Elsa (1876–1945), German-Jewish poetess

  Lateiner, Joseph (1853–1935), Yiddish playwright

  Lechter, Melchior (1865–1937), German poet, member of Stefan George circle

  ‘Legend, The’, by Franz Kafka

  Leiden der Deutschen, see Deutschen in Russland, Die

  Lenz, Jacob Michael Reinhold (1751–92), German poet, who went insane

  Lichtverkäuferin, by Morris Rosenfeld

  Liszt, Franz (1811–66)

  Literarische Welt, Die, literary magazine edited by Willi Haas, 1925–1934 in Berlin, n 47

  Literarischer Ratgeber, literary review and guide published occasionally by the Dürerband

  Literaturbriefe, see Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend

  Loos, Adolf (1870–1933), Austrian-Jewish architect

  Lorrain, Claude (1600–1682), French painter in Italy

  Ludwig, Otto (1813–65), German novelist and critic

  Luise, by Johann Heinrich Voss

  Luther, Martin (1483–1546)

  Madame la mort, by Rachilde

  Maggid, see Grosse Maggid, Der

  Mahler, Gustav (1860–1911), Austrian-Jewish composer

  Maimon, Solomon (1754–1800)

  German-Jewish philosopher from Poland

  Mam’ zelle Nitouche, by A. Millaud and H. Meilhac

  Mann, Thomas (1875–1955)

  Mantegna, Andrea (1431–1506), Italian Painter

  Marbot, Jean Baptiste Marcelin de (1782–1854), general under Napoleon

  Mariage de Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Marignano, Swiss folk drama by Carl Friedrich Weigand

  Martini, Simone (1283–1344), Italian painter

  Meditation, by Franz Kafka, n 4, n 31, n 40, n 42, n 50, n 123

  Meeres und der Lieben Wellen, Des, drama by Franz Grillparzer Meilhac, Henri (1831–92), French librettist

  Memoirs of a Revolutionist, by Prince Peter Alexevich Kropotkin, n 60

  Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Yiddish and Hebrew novelist

  Mendelssohn, Moses (1729–86), German-Jewish philosopher

  Meshumed, Der, by Joseph Lateiner, n 18

  Metamorphosis, The, by Franz Kafka, n 61

  Michael Kohlhaas, by Heinrich von Kleist, n 62

  Millaud, A. (1844–92), French-Jewish playwright

  Miroir, Parisian magazine

  Miser, The, by Molière

  Miss Dudelsack, light opera by Fritz Grünbaum and Heinze Reichert

  Missgeschickten, Die, by Wilhelm Schäfer, n 26

  Moissi, Alexander (1880–1935), famous German actor

  Molière (1622–73)

  Moralités légendaires, by Jules Laforgue, n 6

  Morgenrot, by Otto Stössl

  Morgenstern, Christian (1871–1914), German poet

  Möricke, Eduard (1804–75), German poet

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91)

  Münchner Neueste Nachrichten, Munich newspaper

  Musil, Robert (1880–1942), Austrian-Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist

  Musset, Alfred de (1810–57), French poet

  My Past and Thoughts: the Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, n 60

  Myslbeck, Joseph Vaclav (1848–1922), Czechoslovakian sculptor

  Nackte Mann, Der, by Emil Strauss, n 39

  Narciss, play by Carry Brachvogel, German novelist and playwright (1834–193)

  Náš Skautik, magazine of the Czechoslovakian scout movement, n 120

  Nerval, Gerard de (1808–55), French poet

  Neue Geschlecht, Das, by Theodor Tagger

  Neue Rundschau, Die, literary monthly first published 1890 in Berlin by S. Fischer Verlag

  Nomberg, Hirsch David (1876–1927), Yiddish writer

  Oeser, Adam Friedrich (1717–99), artist who gave Goethe instructions in painting

  Offenbach, Jacques (1819–80), French-Jewish composer

  Organismus des Judentums, by Jacob Fromer

  Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach

  Pallenberg, Max (1877–1934), German-Jewish comedian

  Pan, Berlin literary and art magazine edited by Paul Cassirer

  Pascal, Blaise (1623–62)

  Peretz, Isaac Loeb (1851–1915), Yiddish and Hebrew writer

  Phèdre, by Jean Racine

  Pick, Otto (1887–1940), Jewish journalist from Prague n 56 n 66

  Pietsch, Ludwig (1824–1911), German painter

  Pilger Kamanita, by the Danish author Karl Gjellerup (1857–1919)

  Pines, Meyer Isser (1881–1942?), Jewish literary historian from Russia

  Pinthus, Kurt (1886–1975), German-Jewish author and journalist Plato

  ‘Podriatechick, Der’, by Naum Meir Schaikewitz

  Poppenberg, Hans (1869–1915), German literary historian and critic

  Prager Presse, German language newspaper edited by Otto Pick, n 56

  Prager Tagblatt, Prague German-language newspaper

  Raabe, Wilhelm (1831–1910), German novelist

  Rabinowitz, Solomon, see Sholom Aleichem

  Rachilde, pseud, for Marguerite Valette (1862–1935), French novelist and playwright

  Racine, Jean (1639–99)

  Raphael, (1483–1520)

  Ratten, Die, by Gerhart Hauptmann

  Republic, The, by Plato

  Reiseschatten, by Justinus Kerner

  ‘Resolutions’, by Franz Kafka, n 42

  Richard and Samuel, by Max Brod and Franz Kafka n 14, n 47, n 21

  Richard III, by William Shakespeare

  Richepin, Jean (1849–1926), French poet, noveli
st, and dramatist

  Richter, Moses (1873–1939), Yiddish playwright

  Rideamus, pseud, for Fritz Oliven, (1874–1956), German satirical poet

  Rosenfeld, Morris (1862–1917), Yiddish poet

  Roskoff, Gustav (1814–89), German author of Geschichte des Teufels

  Rowohlt, Ernst (1887–1960), German publisher, n 50

  Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640)

  Rückert, Friedrich (1788–1866), German poet

  Rundschau, see Neue Rundschan, Die

  Salten, Felix (1869–1945), Austrian-Jewish author and critic, born in Budapest

  Sarcey, Francisque (1827–99), French theatrical critic

  Schadow, Johann Gottfried (1764–1850), German sculptor

  Schäfer, Wilhelm (1868–1952), German novelist

  Scharkansky, A. M., Polish-Jewish poet and playwright

  Schaubühne, literary weekly edited by S. Jacobsohn, published, 1905–18 in Berlin, then absorbed in Die Weltbühne

  Schechite, by Jacob Gordin

  Schicksals Spiele und Ernst, Des, by Oskar Baum

  Schildkraut, Rudolph (1862–1930), Austrian-Jewish actor

  Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805)

  Schiller, biography by Eugen Kühnemann

  Schlaf, Johannes (1862–1941), German dramatist and novelist

  Schlegel, Friedrich (1772–1824), German romantic poet and critic

  Schmidtbonn, Wilhelm (1876–1952), German writer

  Schneider als Gemeinderat, Der, by Moses Richter

  Schnitzler, Arthur (1862–1931), Austrian-Jewish playwright and novelist

  Schnorr, Julius von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), German Pre-Raphaelite painter

  Schomer, pseud for Nahum Meir Schaikewits (1849–1906), Polish-Jewish novelist

  Schönherr, Karl (1869–1943), Austrian dramatist

  Schönsten Heilegenlegenden in Wort und Bild, Die, by Expeditus P.

  Schmidt (1868–), German priest and author

  Schwind, Moritz von (1804–71), German painter

  Secessio Judaica, by Hans Blüher

  Seele, Die, see Vom Sein und von der Seele

  Selbstmörder, by David Edeslstatt

  Selbstwehr, Prague Zionist weekly

  Separated, autobiographical novel by Johan August Strindberg

  Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)

  Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950)

  Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916), Yiddish novelist

  Siège de Paris, Le, by Francisque Sarcey

  Smetana, Friedrich (1824–84), Czech composer

  Soederblom, Nathan (1866–1931), Swedish theologian

  Soyka, Otto (1882–1955), German novelist

  Staël, Madame de (1776–1817), French writer

  Steiner, Rudolf (1861–1925), German founder of the anthroposophical society, n 11

  Sternenbraut, Die, by Christian von Ehrenfels

  Sternheim, Karl (1878–1943), German dramatist

  Stilling, see Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich

  ‘Stoker, The’, Chap. I of Amerika, by Franz Kafka, n 53

  Storm, Theodor Woldsen (1817–88), German poet and novelist

  ‘Story of Captain Nemo’, see Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

  Stössl, Otto (1875–1936), Austrian playwright and novelist, n 46

  Strasse der Verlassenheit, Die, by W. Fred

  Strauss, Emil (1866–1960), German novelist, n 39

  Strauss, Richard (1864–1949), German composer Strindberg, Johan August (1849–1912), Swedish dramatist, novelist, and poet

  Strobl, Karl Hans (1877–1946), Austrian novelist from Prague

  ‘Sudden Walk, The’, by Franz Kafka, n 40

  Sulamith, by Abraham Goldfaden

  Tagblatt, see Prager Tagblatt

  Tagger, Theodor (Bruckner, Ferdinand, 1891–1958), German-Jewish playwright

  Taine, Hyppolite Adolphe (1828–93), French critic and historian

  Talmud, 125–6

  Taten des Grossen Alexander, by Michail Kusmin

  Tête d’or, verse play by Paul Claudel, n 63

  Tetschen-Bodenbacher Zeitung, German-language newspaper, published in Bohemia

  Theilhaber, Felix Aaron (1884–1956), German-Jewish writer, later in Israel

  ‘Three Old Men, The’, story by Leo Tolstoy, n 121

  Tintoretto (1518–94)

  Titian (1477–1576)

  Tolstoy, Leo (1828–1910)

  Tragic Overture, by Johannes Brahms

  Trial, The, by Franz Kafka, n 81, n 86, n 87 n 101 , n 125

  Trietsch, Davis (1870–1935), German Zionist writer

  Tucholsky, Kurt (1890–1935), German-Jewish publicist

  Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne

  Über Land und Meer, illustrated popular magazine published in Stuttgart from 1858 to 1923

  ‘Unhappiness’, by Franz Kafka, n 4

  ‘Unmasking a confidence Trickster’, by Franz Kafka,. n 4

  Utitz, Emil (1883–1956), Jewish philosopher from Prague, n 33

  Velasquez, Diego Rodriguez (1599–1660)

  Veit, David, see Briefwechsel Zwischen Rahel und David Veit

  Veronese, Paul (1528–88), Italian painter

  ‘Village Schoolmaster, The’, see ‘Giant Mole, The’

  Vojnovič, Ivo (1857–1929), Croat dramatist

  Volk des harten Schlafes, Das, by Oskar Baum, n 8

  Vom Sein und von der Seele, by Walter Kinkel

  Vorwärts, Der, organ of the Social Democratic Party published in Berlin

  Voss, Johann Heinrich (1751–1826), German poet

  Vrchlicky, Jaroslav (1853–1912), Czech poet, 140–41

  Walser, Robert (1878–1956), Swiss writer and poet

  Wasserman, Jakob (1873–1933), German-Jewish novelist

  Wedekind, Frank (1864–1918), German dramatist

  Weiss, Ernst (1884–1940), German-Jewish novelist and poet, n 57, n 76, n 77

  Weite Land, Dos, by Arthur Schnitzler

  Weltsch, Felix (1884–1964), Jewish philosopher and publicist from Prague, later in Palestine, n 37, n 140

  Weltsch, Robert (b. 1891), Zionist journalist from Prague, later in Israel, now in England

  Werden des Gottesglaubensy Das, by Nathan Soederblom

  Werfel, Franz (1890–1945), Austrian-Jewish poet and novelist

  Werner, Zacharias (1768–1823), German romantic playwright

  Weigand, Carl Friedrich (1877–), German author and poet

  Wiegler, Paul (1878–1949), German novelist and critic, n 6

  Wilde Mensch, Der, by Jacob Gordin

  Wolff, Kurt (1887–1963), German publisher, later publisher of Pantheon Books in America, n 50

  Wunderhorn, see Knaben Wunderhorn, Dei

  Zeity Die

  Zeno

  Zohar

  Zukunft, Die, Berlin literary magazine (1892–1922), edited by Maximilian Harden

  Zunser, Eliakum (1845–1913), Yiddish folk poet

  Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich daily newspaper

  ‘Zwischen Menschenfressern’, by Nahum Meir Schaikewitz

  Zwölf aus der Steiermark, Die, novel by the Austrian writer Rudolph Hans Barsch (1873–1952),

  * Listed only when mentioned in the text as author.

  THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA

  1910–23

  Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, the son of a rich Jewish Czech merchant. After studying literature and medicine for a short time, he turned to law, which he believed was the profession that would give him the greatest amount of free time for his private life and his writing. He took his doctorate in law at Prague University, got a job with an insurance company, and later became a clerk in the semi-governmental Workers’ Insurance Office. In later years the necessity of earning his living by routine office work became an intolerable burden, and he broke away altogether, settling down in a Berlin suburb to devote himself to writing. In 1914 he became engaged, but broke it off, feeling unable to face marriage. He made
one more attempt to marry, but it was discovered that he was suffering from tuberculosis and he went to a sanatorium. His unsatisfactory love affairs, his relationship with his father, a self-made man who cared nothing for his son’s literary aspirations, and his own inflexible intellectual honesty and almost psychopathic sensitivity finally broke down his health, and the ‘hunger years’ of post-1918 Berlin added the finishing touches. He died in 1924. Although he was a Czech, Kafka’s books were all written in German. Seven of them were published during his lifetime. The Trial first appeared after the author’s death in 1925, The Castle in 1926, Amerika in 1927, and The Great Wall of China in 1931.

  •

  Max Brod was a close friend of Kafka in his youth, and wrote a well-known biography of him. Kafka left him all his papers to be destroyed, but Brod, as friend and executor, decided against it. He wrote a novel about their friendship, The Kingdom of Love. Max Brod died in 1968.

  THE SCHOCKEN KAFKA LIBRARY

  AMERIKA

  translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with a foreword by E. L. Doctorow

  Kafka’s first and funniest novel tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, “packed off to America” by his parents, finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.

  THE CASTLE

  a new translation by Mark Harman, based on the restored text

  This haunting tale of a man known only as K. and his endless struggle against an inscrutable authority to gain admittance to a castle is often cited as Kafka’s most autobiographical work.

  “Will be the translation of preference for some time to come.”

  —J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books

  THE COMPLETE STORIES

  edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, with a foreword by John Updike

  All of Kafka’s stories are collected here in one comprehensive volume; with the exception of the three novels, the whole of his narrative work is included.

  “The Complete Stories is an encyclopedia of our insecurities and our brave attempts to oppose them.”

  —Anatole Broyard

  THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA

  edited by Max Brod

  For the first time in this country, the complete diaries of Franz Kafka are available in one volume. Covering the period from 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death, they reveal the essential Kafka behind the enigmatic artist.

  “It is likely that these journals will be regarded as one of [Kafka’s] major literary works; in these pages, he reveals what he customarily hid from the world.”