A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy. By Benjamin Balint Benjamin Balint is the author of “Kafka’s Last Trial” and, most recently, “Bruno Schulz: ...
The rabbis of the Talmud taught in parables, fanciful tales meant to illustrate moral principles. To what may a parable be compared? one of them once asked, that being the form of most rabbinical ...