Reinscribing Moses: Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg in a European Wilderness

by Bluma Goldstein

Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schoenberg--all were Jews who considered themselves more European than Jewish. Yet their experience of anti-Semitism and injustice undermined a full commitment to their native German or Austrian heritage. Their writings about Moses are the focal point in this eloquent book about Jewish identity and assimilation, tradition and cultural allegiance.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992