Community | September 29, 2009 | 4 comments

Fight for Kafka's Papers Winds through Israeli Courts

source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,651859,00.html

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Before his death in 1924, Franz Kafka left his papers to Max Brod who rushed them out of Czechoslovakia ahead of the advancing Nazis. Now, the daughter of Brod's late secretary wants to sell them to a German Institute. But the legal battle in Israel has become Kafka-esque.

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4 comments // Fight for Kafka's Papers Winds through Israeli Courts

  • bielski
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      bielski [removed]  

    • Kafka's work belongs in Israel. His literature is quintessentially Jewish and explores the psyche of someone who is under a continual state of oppression, alienation and persecution. His books are testimony to 2000 years of Christian hatred towards the Jews in Europe. Germany, especially, has no right to these manuscripts.
      And it's also appalling that Hoffe sold off the 40 letters that Stefan Zweig wrote to Brod. Zweig committed suicide in Brazil in 1942 because of what the Germans were doing to his people and anyone decent in Europe. It's a bitter irony that these letters end up in the hands of the nation that drove him to suicide. This woman Hoffe should be ashamed of herself.

    • 2 years ago
  • Zurama
  • GardenTim
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      GardenTim  

    • This is a clip from the Opening Scene of 1963 movie "The Trial", which is based on Kafka's novel by the same title. Kafka's work falls into absurdist literature and was ingenious!

    • 2 years ago
  • unclepete
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