Title: Kafka. Collection The Museum at Hebrew Union College, NY. "And Sara was right to laugh" is a line from one of Kafka's parables. Referring to Sara's reaction to her pregnancy in Genesis, her laughter has been interpreted in many ways. I felt that, given the events of history, Sara, the Hebrew matriarch, was entitled to scoff at her potential motherhood. The use of rape as a tool of war was very much in the news in the 1990s due to its use first during the Rwandan genocide and then the break up of the former Yugoslavia.