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Israel National Library unveils reclaimed Franz Kafka archive

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 | 11:41 AM

Papers and manuscripts were salvaged by author’s friend Max Brod

Israel’s National Library has unveiled a missing batch of Franz Kafka’s papers, ending more than a decade of legal wrangling between Israel and Germany over his legacy.

As he battled with tuberculosis in an Austrian sanatorium, Kafka, a German-speaking Jew from Prague, asked his close friend Max Brod to destroy all his letters and writings.

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