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When Kafka Says ‘We’
A work of speech-theatre by Ruth Kanner
and the actors of the theatre group: Shirley Gal, Tali Kark, Siwar Awwad, Ronen Babluki, Adi Meirovitch | Design: Kinneret Kisch
It seems to be a very old conflict—it’s probably in the blood and so perhaps will only end with blood.
Jackals and Arabs, 1917
An unexpected, surprising side of Franz Kafka is unveiled in his Hebrew notebook. The thin, blue notebook was discovered deep in the archives of the National Library in Jerusalem, and in it, a list of Hebrew words and their German translations, written in Kafka’s own handwriting.
This intriguing vocabulary sparked questions about collective identities that we began to explore in Kafka’s writing. The starting point of our performance is a theatrical composition that constitutes an interpretive stage for Kafka’s world of Hebrew words. From it, some of these words sneak out, and resonate in several of Kafka’s fragments and short stories – all written in 1917, the year Kafka began his Hebrew studies. These texts, too, engage with ancient, strange, wondrous extinct communities, eradicated or eradicating, struggling for their own lives.
The texts:
The Hebrew Notebook (The National Library archive)
Two fragments from The Octavo Notebooks; An Old Manuscript; Jackals and Arabs.
*When Kafka Says ‘We’ – the name of our project is taken from the inspiring book (of that name) by Vivian Liska
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