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Franz Kafka

From 'One Kafka, One Hundred Times' by illustrator Michel Kichka, for the National Library exhibit 'Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author,' December 2024-June 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 3, 2024, 5:06 pm
Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit
Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death
By Jessica Steinberg
Franz Kafka (Joel Basman) in a rendezvous with his former fiancee Felice Bauer (Lia von Blarer) in a scene from the new miniseries 'Kafka.' (Courtesy of ChaiFlicks)
July 26, 2024, 4:21 am
Truth is stranger than fiction in new miniseries based on the life of Franz Kafka
In ‘Kafka,’ now streaming on ChaiFlicks, the Czech Jewish author’s escapades and complex inner struggles are creatively portrayed through the eyes of those who loved him most
By Rich Tenorio
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
April 21, 2023, 4:10 pm
Kafka uncensored: A new version of the writer’s diaries adds back the sordid details
When the ‘Metamorphosis’ author died his friend Max Brod published his journals – cutting the parts he thought too personal. Now they’re complete thanks to translator Ross Benjamin
By JP O’ Malley
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
January 13, 2023, 3:58 am
A new translation of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores much of his Jewish musings
Czech author of ‘The Metamorphosis’ had a complex, contradictory relationship with Judaism, was fascinated by Yiddish theater, new book shows
By Andrew Lapin
An original drawing by Jewish German-speaking novelist and story writer Franz Kafka is displayed at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, on May 31, 2021. - The National Library of Israel's Franz Kafka Papers are now online for the first time, following an intensive years-long process of conservation and restoration work, cataloguing and digitisation of the work of one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
June 1, 2021, 5:09 pm
National library posts unpublished Kafka letters, drawings online
Documents exist thanks to Max Brod’s decision to break pact with Jewish novelist, who asked that his writings be destroyed; publishing moves forward after years of legal hurdles
By AFP
Benjamin Balint. (Courtesy of the Sami Rohr Prize)
May 12, 2020, 12:51 pm
Benjamin Balint wins 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Kafka book
The nonfiction work details the controversial trial that determined the fate of Jewish surrealist author Franz Kafka’s manuscripts
By JTA
National Library archival expert and Humanities Collection Curator Stefan Litt shows drawings by novelist Franz Kafka, during a press conference in the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2019. Hundreds of letters, manuscripts, journals, notebooks, sketches and more - handwritten by Brod and Kafka - have been transferred to the National Library of Israel, following orders by Israeli and Swiss courts to open vaults in Zurich, which had stored the materials for decades. These materials, part of Max Brod's literary estate, have now been returned to Israel and have arrived at the National Library in Jerusalem, in accordance with Brod's wishes. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
August 7, 2019, 2:14 pm
Never-seen handwritten Kafka manuscripts and drawings unveiled in Jerusalem
National Library presentation seen as closing chapter in long battle over writer’s legacy; texts include a Hebrew article about a 1922 strike by Jerusalem teachers
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's ambassador in Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, right, holds documents prior to a handing over ceremony at the embassy of Israel in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. German authorities are handing over to Israel some 5,000 documents kept by a confidant of Franz Kafka, a trove whose plight could have been plucked from one of the author's surreal stories. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
May 22, 2019, 6:39 am
Germany hands Israel thousands of Kafka confidant’s papers
Max Brod’s trove of documents provide window into Europe’s literary scene in the early 20th century, experts say
By David Rising
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
May 21, 2019, 1:19 pm
Germany to return papers of Kafka’s friend Max Brod to Israel
Some 5,000 documents were stolen 10 years ago from Tel Aviv; archive to be handed over at Israeli embassy in Berlin and then moved to Israel’s National Library
By Ryland James
A library official shows celebrated author Franz Kafka’s Hebrew vocabulary notebook at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
April 17, 2019, 11:15 am
Long-hidden Kafka trove within reach after series of trials
Zurich court upholds Israeli ruling that several safe deposit boxes in the Swiss city can be opened and their contents shipped to Israel’s National Library
By Aron Heller
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
November 4, 2018, 1:37 am
How an Israel that never liked Franz Kafka came to own his literary legacy
In a new book, author Benjamin Balint traces the long, tortuous journey of the famed surrealist writer’s original manuscripts – and through them the fading away of a murdered world
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
May 30, 2018, 11:27 pm
Kafka intro to unwritten novel fetches nearly $175,000
Jewish author had intended to write ‘Richard and Samuel’ in 1911 with his friend and publisher Max Brod
By JTA
Author Nicole Krauss (Goni Riskin)
December 28, 2017, 11:43 pm
In new Nicole Krauss novel, Tel Aviv is the backdrop for two US Jews’ reboot
Celebrated author mines her own lifelong relationship with Israel in ‘Forest Dark,’ a meditation on love, Franz Kafka and the ‘what ifs’ of life
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A library official shows celebrated author Franz Kafka’s Hebrew vocabulary notebook at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
August 8, 2016, 8:32 pm
Kafka’s manuscripts are Israel’s property, court rules
Prague-born literary giant’s documents should be given to public institution, not retained by family, says Supreme Court, ending lengthy legal battle
By AFP
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
July 1, 2015, 5:46 pm
Court rules Kafka papers belong to national library
After drawn-out dispute, Israeli family hands over unpublished manuscripts to library, which will post collection online
By AFP
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