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NLI commemorates centenary of Franz Kafka’s death

While Kafka (1883-1924) passed away June 3, the exhibition opened six months later – delayed by the war in Gaza and Lebanon.

 A poster from the Kafka exhibition at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
 Kamea Dance Company’s ‘White Face.’

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 THE ORIGINAL publications of Franz Kafka at the National Library.

'Metamorphosis of an Author': Kafka exhibit to open at Israel's National Library

 BRITISH JOURNALIST and author Douglas Murray was honored with special recognition by Israel for his advocacy on behalf of the country in the wake of October 7.

Grapevine: Meeting Douglas Murray


Grapevine June 23, 2024: A matter of perspective

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 RANIT RAND SOROKA (left) with Kiryat Ono Mayor Michal Rosenshein.

New Kafka miniseries is especially relevant today

The more you know and love Kafka’s work, the more you will get out of this Austrian/German series, which is at its best showing how Kafka’s life and literature melded.

 THE SIX -PART series ‘Kafka’ marks the 100th anniversary of the Jewish author’s death

‘Succession,’ ‘Barry’ and the very Jewish nature of unresolved endings

Today, TV fans have come to expect unsettling, unresolved and even unhinged endings to their favorite shows. I am here to say that such conclusions are quintessentially Jewish.

 WRITING A Sefer Torah in Safed.

A new translation of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores his Jewish musings

A new translation of Franz Kafka's diaries gives readers the fullest possible picture of his complex relationship with Judaism.

The Czech writer Franz Kafka posing before Kinsky Palace on the square of the old town in Prague, Czech Republic, where his father held a shop, around 1896-1906.

‘Kafka for Kids’: An adaptation that is either funny or obscene - review

This strange but riveting full-length film is the latest from Israeli artist Roee Rosen, who's had shows of his works all over the world and taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Beit Berl

 ROEE ROSEN’S film ‘Kafka for Kids.’

National Library of Israel's Franz Kafka collection now online

Newly digitized work by the Jewish author includes three different draft versions of Kafka's story "Wedding Preparations in the Country," as well as a notebook in which he practiced learning Hebrew.

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The Kafkaesque trial of Benjamin Netanyahu – opinion

The only conclusion is that Netanyahu’s trial is an unprecedented hornet’s nest of its own, incomparable to anything else.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu at his trial.

Final batch of Brod and Kafka items returned to Israel

Never-before seen sketches, handwritten notebooks in Hebrew and other items were found in the collection.

 Some of the never-before seen sketches, Hebrew notebooks and other items belonging to famous Jewish author Franz Kafka that were revealed by the National Library of Israel on Wednesday

Stolen letters from Kafka confidant handed over to National Library of Israel

Thousands of documents belonging to Max Brod transferred to Israeli ownership.

Transfer of stolen Brod papers

Kafka’s archive must be handed over to Israel, Swiss court rules

Following the ruling, a number of safes kept in the vaults of a Zurich bank may be opened and their contents sent to the National Library of Israel.

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