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 ...

Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the ...

"Benjamin says the ambiguity of Kafka’s prose make translating his work difficult in general. But translating Kafka’s diaries proved especially tricky...." Headshot portrait of Austrian writer Franz ...

'If I have the great wish to be a track and field athlete,' Kafka wrote in 1921, 'it is probably the same as if I wished to go to heaven and to be permitted to be as despairing there as here' - ...

“In the diary one finds proof that, even in conditions that today seem unbearable, one lived, looked around and wrote down observations,” noted Franz Kafka, reflecting back on the series of journals ...

Franz Kafka (1923). Public domainPicture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to ...

Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the ...