Games of Inheritance

• Introduction: A Game of Inheritance 
  • The Judaic
  • From Kabbalah to Tradition (the Structure of the Argument)
  • Methodological Notes

Section I: Kabbalah

• Chapter 1: Kabbalistic Stories
  • Kabbalistic Methodologies
  • Encountering Scholem
• Chapter 2: The Ideal Author
  • A Vindication of the Author
  • What is an Author?
  • Another Creation Story
  • Cabal and Complot
  • A Comment on Literature and Conspiracy
• Chapter 3: The Ideal Reader
  • Borges’ Parable of the Cave
  • The Narrator and the Kabbalist
  • Kabbalah and Tradition

• Chapter 4: The Trouble with Tradition
  • Literary Tradition
  • Jewish Tradition
  • National Tradition
  • Tradition in the Historical Sense
  • The Postwar Question of Tradition
• Chapter 5: What is Jewish Tradition?
  • First Rejection: The Essential
  • Second Rejection: The Original
  • Third Rejection: The Rupture
  • The Departure from Tradition
  • Veblen, An Imbalanced Analogy
  • Veblen, An Evolving Analogy
• Chapter 6: Tradition and Local Color
  • Between Jewish and Israeli Literature
  • “The Memory of Israel is in Agnon”
  • Between Tradition and Local Color
  • Bring on the Camels

• Chapter 7: Authorship and its Metaphors
  • Hasidism
  • The Sphere of In-Between
  • Kafka and his Precursors
  • A New Metaphor for Authorship
• Conclusion: Borges and his Kafkaesque Precursors