(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater ... and he hated the small amounts of Jewish culture he was exposed to at a young age, including his own bar mitzvah. In addition, the ...

The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3 ... Others, and especially those of the younger generations, think we’re foolish. We are, after all, detached from the economy of likes ...

Why do we continue to find Franz Kafka so compelling 100 years after his death? Why is Kafka still considered to be so modern and contemporary? What awaits us in Kafka’s anniversary year of 2024?

When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that likely come to mind: Lonely, tortured, isolated. But this depiction doesn’t actually tell the full story of Kafka, a new exhibit at The ...

House at the Tower, Franz Kafka Square 3 | Photo: Petr Machan ... The Czech governess of his sisters recalled that “the young master was tall, slender, of a serious disposition, not very talkative ...

Franz Kafka himself was a petty bureaucrat: He spent his life working in insurance, writing late into the night. But as a tiny cog in the bureaucratic machinery, he understood its sensibility ...

KARACHI: The Judgement is one of writer Franz Kafka’s oft-discussed short stories. It is about a young man who writes letters to a friend that according to him lives in Russia. The father of the ...

A collection of documents by the author Franz Kafka is now publicly available online, following intensive restoration, cataloguing and digitisation. The digitised collection includes three draft ...

the disappointment could be no bigger,” writes Franz Kafka in ‘A Report to an Academy’. Often interpreted as a grotesque metaphor for otherness, Kafka’s story presents a world, a literary ...

Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing ... his personal life–including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next ...