But Kafka was also a proud Jew and Zionist who studied Hebrew in anticipation of settling in Palestine. He no doubt was familiar with the admonition of 19th-century German-Jewish poet Heinrich ...

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 ...

if they ever mentioned Kafka at all, did not refer to him as a Czech author but, following the official line, as a German writer. The fact that he was Jewish did not help him to be accepted in ...

Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 to a Jewish merchant family. His grandfather had emigrated from a small German-speaking Czech town in the 1942th century and settled in Prague. Kafka also had ...

Now they ought to read him, too,” Kafka scholar Seth Rogoff noted that a social media craze for the enigmatic Czech Jewish writer risked turning a genius into a shallow meme. In a valedictory ...

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Emma Tenzler recounts three chance encounters from history which went on to redefine literature ...

The last time we saw Mo Najjar, he was stuck in Mexico, unwittingly having been driven across the Texas border by an olive-tree-thieving cartel. A Palestinian refugee without asylum status in the US, ...