At one point while hanging out with Löwy, Kafka invokes antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish uncleanliness: “My hair touched his when I leaned toward his head, I grew frightened due to at least ...

Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” hovers over ... My tall, skinny father with silver streaks in his hair, the eyebrows that I brushed and trimmed for him.” Like Nila, Aber was raised in Berlin ...

due to a Kafkaesque journey reminiscent of the writer’s hair-raising fictional world. “Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author,” opened on December 1 at the National Library of Israel as the ...