Franz Kafka literary legal battle ends as Israel's high court rules in favor of library

• Country’s supreme court rules manuscripts are the national library’s property
  
• Estate’s heirs must hand over documents, which include unpublished writings

Israel’s supreme court has ruled that Franz Kafka’s manuscripts are the property of the National Library of Israel, ending a lengthy legal battle, judicial sources said in Monday.

The nation’s top court on Sunday rejected an appeal by the heirs of Max Brod, a friend of Kafka and the executor of his estate to whom he had willed his manuscripts after his death in 1924.

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