{"product_id":"burnt-books-rabbi-nachman-of-bratslav-and-franz-kafka-by-rodger-kamenetz","title":"Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka by Rodger Kamenetz","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Jew in the Lotus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecomes an \"engrossing and wonderful book\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Washington Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) about the unexpected connections between Franz Kafka and Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand the significant role played by the imagination in the Jewish spiritual experience. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRodger Kamenetz has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their lives and writings, the more aware he became of unexpected connections between them. Kafka was a secular artist fascinated by Jewish mysticism, and Rabbi Nachman was a religious mystic who used storytelling to reach out to secular Jews. Both men died close to age forty of tuberculosis. Both invented new forms of storytelling that explore the search for meaning in an illogical, unjust world. Both gained prominence with the posthumous publication of their writing. And both left strict instructions at the end of their lives that their unpublished books be burnt.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKamenetz takes his ideas on the road, traveling to Kafka’s birthplace in Prague and participating in the pilgrimage to Uman, the burial site of Rabbi Nachman visited by thousands of Jews every Jewish new year. He discusses the hallucinatory intensity of their visions and offers a rich analysis of Nachman’s and Kafka’s major works, revealing uncanny similarities in the inner lives of these two troubled and beloved figures, whose creative and religious struggles have much to teach us about the Jewish spiritual experience.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"RNDM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361843077429,"sku":"fdq1787285355680","price":17.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/burnt-books-rabbi-nachman-of-bratslav-and-franz-kafka-by-rodger-kamenetz_1.jpg?v=1787285360","url":"https:\/\/trelivora.com\/products\/burnt-books-rabbi-nachman-of-bratslav-and-franz-kafka-by-rodger-kamenetz","provider":"trelivora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}