A scrupulous study of the squabble between Germany and Israel over Kafka’s papers, and the two women caught in the middle The world was Kafkaesque before Franz Kafka; all he did was contribute the ...

Kafka’s dying request that his manuscripts be destroyed sparked a legal battle that raged for decades, as this vivid study reveals As he lay dying of tuberculosis in 1924, Franz Kafka left perhaps the ...

A new book asks: To whom do the surviving remnants of the Jewish artist’s output — including murals he was forced to paint for a Nazi’s home — belong? By Joshua Cohen When you purchase an ...

Max Brod, a Czech author and a friend of Franz Kafka's. Rina Castelnuovo For decades, an unassuming apartment at 23 Spinoza Street, Tel Aviv, housed one of the world's greatest literary secrets. This ...

Max Brod, the friend and confidante of Franz Kafka, could not bring himself to fulfill the Czech writer’s wish that his remaining manuscripts be burned. In time, his decision not to destroy led to an ...

(JTA) — Benjamin Balint won the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his book “Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy.” The nonfiction work is an account of the controversial ...

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