Download or read book The Animal in the Synagogue written by Dan Miron and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that both Franz Kafka's personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.