Was Josef K. only guilty of the crime of being Jewish?
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Books 100 Years Later, Revisiting Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ and World War I
This year marks the centennial of two landmarks of modernity: World War I and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.” Both events have their origins in 1914, but neither ever truly ended: Upon his death in 1924, Kafka left behind an unfinished manuscript, while the peacemakers at Versailles left behind an unresolved war. Beyond their incomplete natures,…
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Fast Forward Unseen Kafka Works Go Public in Israel
A collection of yet unseen Franz Kafka writings, stashed for four decades in a Tel Aviv apartment, will be made public and transferred to Israel’s national library, according to an Israeli court ruling published on Sunday. The papers had been held by Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, two sisters who argued in a more than…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Banned Books in Jordan; ‘Finnegans Wake’ in Yiddish
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