Editor’s Note: Franz Kafka was born on this day, July 3, 1883. Anne Roiphe examines the prescience of the author’s “Metamorphosis.” ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, ...

When the Franz Kafka exhibit opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in November 2024 it marked two important centennial milestones: the opening of the Morgan Library and the anniversary of Kafka’s ...

In 1914, agitated by his friends’ insistence that he become involved in the Zionist movement, Franz Kafka wrote in his diaries, “what have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with ...

In Synetic Theater’s production of Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” the set is far more than a place where the action happens. It’s a visual statement of the bizarre, illogical universe that Kafka ...

(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his Hebrew teacher and once encountered the owner of a brothel he frequented in synagogue on Yom Kippur. The broad strokes of ...

Exhibitions focused on writers are often an uneasy balance of biography and interpretation, image and text, but Franz Kafka, who continues to fascinate and confound readers well into the 21st century, ...

Marking 100 years since the death of Franz Kafka, the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem is soon to unveil its latest exhibition, Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author. Running from December 4 to ...