The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3 ... years before he’d create the works that would make him famous to posterity, he wrote, “My whole body warns me against every word ...

World News // 1 decade ago Franz Kafka, Max Brod works go to Israel National Library: Court Ownership of Franz Kafka's and Max Brod's literary works will be transferred from private hands to ...

In communist Prague, Kafka was banned. Something similar happened in the Soviet Union and other totalitarian countries, so their citizens were not able to read Franz ... refer to him as a Czech ...

Most people know Franz Kafka as that brilliant author who wrote “Die Verwandlung” (The Metamorphosis), “Das Urteil” (The Judgment) or “Der Process” (The Trial). Then again, others value him equally ...

Then, there is one more memory: this is the place from which, in September 1889, Franz Kafka went to school from for the first time. Again, the school was not far away, but the way there was becoming ...

the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi who taught him Hebrew (though she receives scant mention in the diaries). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka,” translated by Ross Benjamin and out this week from ...

Israel's National Library is exhibiting rare personal papers of the famous Czech Jewish writer Franz Kafka ... Zionism. Kafka, who suffered from tuberculosis before it killed him in 1924, was ...

Other proscribed authors included Bertolt Brecht, Sigmund Freud, Irmgard Keun, Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel ... was about to deport him to Nazi-allied Vichy, France. Kafka was acutely aware of ...