References in Kreisel’s Essays, Stories and Novels

Chassidic also called Hasidic, see Hasidism

• Chasidism

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) British novelist originally born in Poland who adopted English as his creative language. He wrote the novella, Heart of Darkness (1902).

• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), at Nagoya University
• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) - Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski

doppelgänger; German term for double, literally double walker

Holocaust; burnt offering, wholesale sacrifice often by fire. From the Greek words, holo kauston. The terms "The Holocaust" now refers to the systematic extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the Nazis during WWII. See links below:

• A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
• The Holocaust History Project
  

Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); German language writer born in Prague, Bohemia (then belonging to Austria). He came from a middle-class Jewish family and wrote novellas about the alienation of modern man.

• Franz Kafka
• The Kafka Project

Klein, A. M. (1909-72) Canadian poet and novelist of Jewish background who worked in Montreal.

• A.M. Klein biography, poems, criticism

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