Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (review)

while Abigail Gilman' s insightful interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler' s "Jewish" novel, Der Weg ins Freie, shows how the Jewish parts of the novel and the non-Jewish Bildungsroman fit together.The contribution by Peter Demetz stems from personal experience, since it deals with the appearance and the disappearance of Yiddish in Prague; but it also gives significant insight into how the absence of Yiddish impacted Franz Kafka and Max Brod.