Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue Adult Education Team invites you to the first of our 2020/21 “one-of sessions” on Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 7 pm featuring a discussion of Kafka, Nachman, Kabbalah and Neuroses by Lee Henderson, an Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Victoria.
Lee will discuss Franz Kafka, his writing, his life, and the influence of Jewish mysticism and kabbalah on his themes and style, and in particular, Kafka’s familiarity with the great Ḥasidic storyteller from a century earlier, Rabbi Nachman.
Gershon Scholem was first to identify the common ground between Kafka’s stories and Nachman’s. And there are parallels between their lives, too, worth observing. Nachman, the great spiritualist. Kafka, the great existentialist. They had much in common.
The presentation will be on Zoom. For information and the zoom link please contact info@conregationemanuel.ca.
