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Franz Kafka
Kafka, aged 23. Pic: National Library of Israel
December 5, 2024, 4:05 pm
Franz Kafka exhibition launched at National Library of Israel
Exhibit tells life story of the writer through 80 rare items including Hebrew notebooks, his will, personal letters and first editions
By Michelle Rosenberg
June 20, 2024, 6:12 pm
One hundred years after his death, a play tells the story of Franz Kafka
The perception most hold about the writer is far from the truth
By Poppy Shulman
Franz Kafka
August 8, 2019, 10:55 am
Franz Kafka collection goes on display in Israel after 12-year legal battle
Author's letters, diaries, drawings and manuscripts now viewable at the National Library, following court battle
By Jewish News Reporter
Franz Kafka
May 22, 2019, 3:38 pm
Germany hands trove of 5,000 lost Franz Kafka documents to Israel
Items are among some 40,000 document that once belonged to writer's confidant Max Brod, which are being brought together again in Israel's National Library.
By Jenni Frazer
Franz Kafka
April 17, 2019, 9:15 am
Trove of long-hidden Franz Kafka works could be on way to Israel after legal row
A district court in Zurich upheld Israeli verdicts, ruling that several safe deposit boxes could be opened and their contents shipped to Israel's National Library.
By Jewish News Reporter
Franz Kafka
June 1, 2018, 1:43 pm
Kafka intro to unwritten novel fetches nearly £131,000
Handwritten manuscript penned by famous author from Prague sold last weekend in Hamburg
By JTA
Philip Roth
May 27, 2018, 11:35 am
Philip Roth won’t be having a Jewish funeral
Acclaimed author who passed away earlier this week, "expressly forbade" any religious rituals, according to his biographer, Blake Bailey
By JTA
Philip Roth
May 23, 2018, 9:41 am
Acclaimed author Philip Roth dies aged 85
Writer who received virtually every literary honour including the Pulitzer for American Pastoral, passes away in a New York hospital of congestive heart failure
Franz Kafka
August 9, 2016, 9:09 am
Israeli family stripped of Franz Kafka scripts by supreme court
The documents will be transferred to the National Library, which the court claimed was the 'preferred location' for them
By Jewish News Reporter
Franz Kafka
December 24, 2015, 10:40 am
You’re my hero!… Franz Kafka
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