


1929) These authors wrote their works when the failure of Jewish assimilation began to dawn on assimilated/acculturated European Jewry, and an upsurge of hatred of Jews made it, as someone put it: _as impossible to be, as not to be a Jew (by assimilation/ acculturation)_ What I aim to show is that during that deadlock of Jewish identity, new structures of identity began to emerge in the literary works of Jews.

Exclusion and renewal: identity and Jewishness in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and David Vogel's Married Life Doctoral Thesis In this study I explore literary structures of identity-formation in the works of assimilated/acculturated Jewish writers: Kafka_s novella _The Metamorphosis_ (_Die Verwandlung_, 1912) and David Vogel_s Hebrew novel Married Life.
