Marbach, German Literature Archive:
accessibility of materials in ref1, ref2
and Brod’s estate ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
formation of ref1
German-Jewish papers in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
and lawsuits ref1, ref2
manuscripts purchased by ref1
mission of ref1
and National Library of Israel ref1, ref2, ref3
technical facilities in ref1
Marcuse, Herbert ref1
Masaryk, Tomáš ref1, ref2n, ref3n
Maurer, Paul ref1
McEwan, Ian ref1n
Megged, Aharon ref1
Melcer, Hanan ref1
Mendes-Flohr, Paul ref1n
Meyer, Eduard ref1
Michaeli, Lali ref1
Michalski, Jakob ref1
Miłosz, Czesław ref1
Miron, Dan ref1, ref2
Moked, Gabriel ref1n
Montefiore, Sir Moses ref1
Moser, Mibi ref1
Moses, teachings of ref1
Mossad Bialik ref1n
Motono, Koichi ref1n
Muir, Willa and Edwin ref1, ref2, ref3n
Munich Agreement ref1
Murakami, Haruki ref1
Museum of Modern Literature (LiMo), Marbach ref1
Muzicant, Ariel ref1
Nabokov, Dmitri ref1
Nabokov, Vladimir ref1, ref2
Nadav, Mordechai ref1, ref2
National Library of Israel:
accessibility of materials in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Bergmann as director of ref1
and Brod’s estate ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Committee for the Salvage of Diaspora Treasures ref1
establishment of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Esther Hoffe’s will ref1
and first judgment ref1, ref2
German-Jewish writers’ works in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n
and German literature ref1
and Jewish cultural treasures ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
and last appeal ref1, ref2, ref3
and Marbach archive ref1, ref2, ref3
private property nationalized in ref1
and Vienna Jewish library ref1
Nazi Party:
authors persecuted by ref1
authors blacklisted by ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
concentration camps ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8n
escape from ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
and Holocaust, see Holocaust
and looted Jewish property ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n, ref9, ref10, ref11n
postwar attitudes toward ref1, ref2, ref3
rise to power ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Schiller ref1n
Netanyahu, Benjamin ref1, ref2n
Neugroschel, Joachim ref1n
New York Times ref1n, ref2, ref3n, ref4n
Nierad, Jonathan ref1n
Nietzsche, Friedrich ref1, ref2
Novalis ref1
Offenbach Archival Depot, Germany ref1, ref2
Olmert, Ehud ref1
Ott, Ulrich ref1
Ottoman Empire, civil code of ref1
Oxford Kafka Research Centre ref1
Oxford University, Bodleian Library ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Oz, Amos ref1, ref2
Ozick, Cynthia ref1, ref2
Pagi, Nurit ref1
Palästina ref1, ref2
Palestine:
and Balfour Declaration ref1
British Mandatory Palestine ref1, ref2n
as Israel, see Israel
Jewish colonies in ref1
Pasley, Sir Malcolm ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n
Pawel, Ernst ref1
Pazi, Margarita ref1
Peretz, I. L. ref1
Phillips, William ref1
Pinès, Meyer Isser ref1
Plath, Sylvia ref1
Plato ref1
Plinner, Sa’ar ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Pohl, Johannes ref1n
Pollak, Ernst ref1
Pollak, Oskar ref1
Porat, Orna ref1, ref2
Prager Abendblatt; Prager Tagblatt ref1, ref2
Prague:
anti-Semitism in ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4
Bar Kochba Association in ref1
escape to Palestine from ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6, ref7
Franz Kafka Monument in ref1n
German Jews in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Kafka’s books banned in ref1n
Tolerance Charter in ref1
Prague Circle ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Prague Spring (1968) ref1n
Preece, Julian, Representative Man ref1
Primor, Avi ref1
Prinz, Joachim ref1n
Proust, Marcel ref1
Raabe, Paul ref1, ref2
Rabin, Yitzhak ref1n
Rashi ref1
Rath, Moses ref1, ref2, ref3
Rathenau, Walther ref1, ref2n
Raulff, Ulrich ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ravensbrück concentration camp ref1, ref2
Reich, Hedwig ref1
Reich, Marion ref1n
Reuss, Roland ref1
Richter, Sandra ref1
Rilke, Rainer Maria ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Robert, Marthe ref1, ref2, ref3
Robertson, Ritchie ref1, ref2
Robina, Hanna ref1
Rokem, Freddie ref1
Róna, Jaroslav ref1n
Rosen, Lia ref1
Rosenthal, Yemima ref1
Rosenzweig, Franz ref1, ref2n
Roth, Joseph ref1n, ref2
Roth, Philip ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6
Rothschild, Dorothy de ref1
Rowohlt Verlag ref1, ref2n
Rubin, Abraham A. ref1
Rubinstein, Elyakim ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Ruppin, Arthur ref1
Sachs, Nelly ref1n
Sadan, Dov ref1, ref2
Salten, Felix ref1
Salveter, Emmy ref1
Samuelson, Arthur ref1
Sandbank, Shimon ref1n, ref2, ref3
Saudková, Věra ref1
Schenhar, Yitzhak (Schönberg) ref1n
Schiller, Friedrich ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n
Schiller Museum, Marbach ref1
Schirrmacher, Frank ref1
Schlaffler, Heinz ref1n
Schlesinger, Josef ref1
Schmückle, Georg ref1n
Schneider, Lambert ref1
Schneller, Isaiah ref1, ref2
Schnitzler, Arthur ref1, ref2n, ref3
Schocken, Salman ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n,
Schocken Books, New York ref1, ref2n
Schocken family ref1, ref2n, ref3n
Schocken Verlag ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n
Schoeps, Hans-Joachim ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4n
Scholem, Gershom ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n
on Brod’s biography of Kafka ref1
estate of ref1, ref2, ref3n
and Kafka’s influence ref1
and Kafka’s writings ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7n
and National Library of Israel ref1
and rescue of looted books ref1
Schopenhauer, Arthur ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Schreiber, Adolf ref1
Schubert, Franz ref1
Schulz, Bruno ref1n, ref2n
Sebald, W. G. ref1n
Seitmann, Rabbi Hoschut ref1n
Selbstwehr ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
&nb
sp; Selee, Yosef ref1n
S. Fischer Verlag ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5n, ref6n, ref7n
Shaked, Gershon ref1
Shakespeare, William ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Shalev, Mordechai ref1n
Shalom, Shin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n
Shaphir, A. D. ref1
Sharett, Moshe ref1
Sharon, Ariel ref1
Shedletzky, Itta ref1, ref2
Shilo, Michael ref1
Shilo, Yitzhak ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Shimoni, David ref1, ref2
Shlonsky, Avraham ref1
Shmueli, Ilana ref1, ref2n
Shoah, see Holocaust
Shumsky, Dmitry ref1n
Singer, Isaac Bashevis ref1
Slíva, Jiří:
“Franz Kafka in the Waves” ref1
“Science Fiction: F. K. in Tel Aviv 1957” ref1
Smilansky, Naomi ref1
Soderbergh, Steven ref1n
Sokolovsky, Noah ref1
Sokolow, Nahum ref1
Sol, Ehud ref1, ref2
Sophocles ref1
Sotheby’s London ref1
Sotheby’s New York ref1n
Spaini, Alberto ref1n
Spitzer, Moritz ref1, ref2, ref3
Stach, Reiner:
on Brod and women ref1
on Brod-Kafka relationship ref1, ref2, ref3
on Brod’s estate ref1, ref2, ref3
on Brod’s literary output ref1, ref2n
as Kafka biographer ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8
on Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2n, ref3
Staengle, Peter ref1n
Starobinski, Jean ref1
Steiner, George ref1, ref2, ref3n
Steiner, Marianna ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5, ref6
Steiner, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Steiner, Rudolf ref1
Stern, Tania and James ref1
Stifter, Adalbert ref1n
Stoffman, Judith ref1
Stollman, Aviad ref1, ref2
Stopford, Robert J. ref1
Strauss, Leo ref1
Strauss, Ludwig ref1, ref2n
Stroemfeld Verlag ref1n
Sudaka-Bénazéraf, Jacqueline ref1n
Suhrkamp Verlag ref1, ref2
Supreme Court of Israel:
case regarding Vienna Jewish community ref1
last appeal in (2016) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Susman, Margarete ref1, ref2
Szelińska, Józefina ref1n
Szubin, Zvi Henri ref1n
Tagesspiegel ref1
Tarshish Books ref1n
Tasso ref1
Taussig, Elsa ref1, ref2
Tchernichovsky, Shaul ref1
Tel Aviv District Court:
and Eva Hoffe’s finances ref1
first appeal in (2012) ref1, ref2, ref3
judgment in ( June 2015) ref1, ref2
1974 lawsuit in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tel Aviv Family Court:
first judgment (October 2012) ref1, ref2
first trial in (2007) ref1, ref2, ref3
Teller, Judd ref1
Temkin, Mordechai ref1
Tenschert, Heribert ref1
Thatcher, Margaret ref1
Thieberger, Friedrich ref1, ref2n
Tisza affair ref1
Torberg, Friedrich ref1n, ref2n
Treblinka concentration camp ref1, ref2
Tshissik, Millie ref1
Tucholsky, Kurt ref1n
Turgenev, Ivan ref1
UBS, Zürich ref1
Ullmann, Fritz ref1
Unseld, Joachim ref1
Unseld, Siegfried ref1, ref2
Ussishkin, Menachem ref1
Uyttersprot, Herman ref1n
Valéry, Paul ref1n
Vardi, Kobi ref1, ref2, ref3
Vassogne, Gaëlle, Max Brod in Prague: Identity and Mediation ref1, ref2
Vialette, Alexandre ref1n
Vienna Jewish community ref1
Vigée, Claude ref1
Virgil, Aeneid ref1
Vogelmann, David ref1
Volkswagen Foundation ref1
Voltaire ref1
von Schönerer, Georg Ritter ref1
Vrchlický, Jaroslav ref1n
Wagenbach, Klaus ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Wagner, Richard ref1, ref2
“Judaism in Music” ref1
Wágnerová, Alena ref1
Waldes, Jindřich ref1
Walser, Martin ref1
Walser, Robert ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4
Walsh, Robert ref1, ref2
Wedekind, Frank ref1
Weigel, Sigrid ref1n, ref2
Weinreich, Max ref1
Weiser, Rafi (Raphael) ref1n, ref2
Weltsch, Felix ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8n, ref9n
Kafka obituary by ref1
Weltsch, Robert ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4
Werfel, Franz ref1n, ref2, ref3
Wiesel, Elie ref1
Wiesenthal, Simon ref1n
Wilson, Edmund ref1
Wilson, Woodrow ref1
Winkler, Manfred ref1n
Wohryzek, Julie ref1, ref2, ref3
Wolff, Kurt ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5, ref6n
Helen and Kurt Wolff Archive ref1
Wortsman, Peter ref1n
Wyllie, David ref1n
Yad Vashem (Holocaust museum) ref1n
Yehoshua, A. B. ref1, ref2
Yevseev, Yevgeni ref1n
YIVO library, Vilna ref1, ref2
Yonatan, Natan ref1n
Yourgrau, Wolfgang ref1
Zach, Natan ref1
Zeit Foundation ref1
Zeller, Bernhard ref1
Zfat, Uri ref1, ref2, ref3
Zimmermann, Hans Dieter ref1, ref2
Zionism:
and Bar Kochba ref1, ref2, ref3
and Brod, see Brod, Max
and Buber ref1
coining of term ref1
and cultural treasures ref1, ref2
and diaspora ref1
and Ha-Poel Ha-Tzair ref1
Herzl as founding father of ref1
and ingathering of exiles ref1, ref2
and Judaism ref1
and Kafka ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7n, ref8n, ref9n
World Zionist Organization ref1
Zohar, Eli ref1, ref2, ref3
Zola, Émile ref1
Zunz, Leopold ref1n
Zweig, Arnold ref1, ref2, ref3
Zweig, Stefan ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n
Zylberberg, Hélène ref1n
Zylbertal, Zvi ref1, ref2
KAFKA’S LAST TRIAL
Benjamin Balint, a library fellow at the Van Leer Institute, taught literature at the Bard College humanities programme at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. He is the author of Running Commentary (published by PublicAffairs in 2010) and coauthor of Jerusalem: City of the Book (forthcoming from Yale University Press). He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and Die Zeit, and his translations from the Hebrew have appeared in the New Yorker.
ALSO BY BENJAMIN BALINT
Running Commentary (2010)
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