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Archives
Hugo Bergmann archives, National Library, Jerusalem (ARC. 4* 1502)
Max Brod archives, National Library, Jerusalem (Schwad. 01 02)
Papers of Franz Kafka, Bodleian Library, Oxford (MSS. Kafka 1-55), including Kafka’s German-Hebrew vocabularies and Hebrew exercises (shelfmarked MS. Kafka 24; 26, fols. 28v–29v; 29–33; 46, fols. 5–8; and 47, fols. 4–15)
Shin Shalom-Esther Hoffe correspondence, Gnazim: Asher Barash Bio-Bibliographical Institute, Tel Aviv (file 97)
Court Rulings
Tel Aviv District Court 1169/73, State Legal Advisor Kerem v. Esther Hoffe, January 17, 1974 [Hebrew].
Tel Aviv Family Court 105050/08, Eva D. Hoffe v. General Custodian Tel Aviv, October 12, 2012 [Hebrew].
Tel Aviv District Court 47113-11-12, Eva D. Hoffe v. Shmulik Cassouto (executor of the estate of Esther Hoffe), Ehud Sol (executor of the estate of Max Brod), the National Library of Israel, and the German Literary Archive in Marbach. June 29, 2015 [Hebrew].
Supreme Court of Israel 6251/15, Eva D. Hoffe v. Shmulik Cassouto (executor of the estate of Esther Hoffe), Ehud Sol (executor of the estate of Max Brod), the National Library of Israel, the German Literary Archive in Marbach, and General Custodian, August 7, 2016 [Hebrew].
Index
Note: Reference numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Ackermann, Theodor, bookseller ref1
Adenauer, Konrad ref1
Aderet, Ofer ref1
Adorno, Theodor W. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Agnon, S. Y. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Aichinger, Ilse ref1n
Albee, Edward ref1
Aleichem, Sholem ref1
, ref2
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation ref1
Alsberg, Paul ref1
Alter, Robert ref1, ref2n, ref3n
Alterman, Natan ref1, ref2
Altmann, Alexander ref1
Amichai, Yehuda ref1, ref2, ref3
Amis, Kingsley ref1
Am Oved ref1n, ref2
Anders, Günther ref1n, ref2, ref3
Ansky, S. ref1
Appelfeld, Aharon ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Ardon, Mordecai ref1
Arendt, Hannah ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n
Artemis & Winkler ref1
Ashkenazi, Yossi ref1
Ashman, Aharon ref1
Ashwall, Harel ref1
Auden, W. H. ref1, ref2n, ref3
Auerbach, Erich ref1n
Auschwitz concentration camp ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Austro-Hungarian Empire:
dissolution of ref1, ref2
Kafka’s father in army of ref1
Avnery, Uri ref1
Bachmann, Ingeborg ref1
Balfour Declaration ref1
Bankier, David ref1n
Bank Leumi, Tel Aviv ref1, ref2, ref3
Bar Kochba Association ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8
Baron, Salo W. ref1
Baruch, Isaac Loeb (Brocowitz) ref1
Barzilai, Matan ref1
Bashan, Refael ref1
Bauer, Felice ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Bauer, Yehuda ref1n
Baum, Oskar ref1n, ref2, ref3n
Beardsley, Aubrey ref1
Beauvoir, Simone de ref1
Beck, Evelyn, Kafka and the Yiddish Theater ref1n
Beckett, Samuel ref1
Beethoven, Ludwig van ref1
Begin, Menachem ref1
Bellow, Saul ref1, ref2
ben Abuya, Elisha ref1
Ben-Gurion, David ref1, ref2
ben Hama, Pinchas ref1
Ben-Horin, Schalom ref1, ref2n
Benjamin, Walter ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8n, ref9n
Benn, Gottfried ref1n
Ben-Tovim, Puah ref1
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer ref1
Berdichevsky, M. Y. ref1, ref2
Berendsohn, Walter ref1
Berglass, Ella ref1
Bergmann, Elsa (née Fanta) ref1
Bergmann, Hugo ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n
Bergner, Yosl ref1
Bezaleli, Amnon ref1
Bialik, H. N. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Binder, Hartmut ref1
Birnbaum, Nathan ref1
Blei, Franz ref1
Bloch, Grete ref1n, ref2
Bloom, Harold ref1, ref2n
Blüher, Hans, Secessio Judaica ref1
Blumberg, David ref1
Blumenfeld, Kurt ref1
Böll, Heinrich ref1, ref2n
Bondy, Fritz ref1
Born, Jürgen ref1
Bornstein, Sagi ref1
Botstein, Leon ref1
Bowie, David ref1
Brahe, Tycho ref1
Brandeis, Louis D. ref1
Brecht, Bertolt ref1, ref2
Brenner, Hagai ref1, ref2, ref3
Brenner, Y. H. ref1, ref2
Breton, André ref1n
Briegleb, Klaus ref1
Brod, Adolf [father] ref1
Brod, Elsa [wife] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Brod, Fanny (née Rosenfeld) [mother] ref1
Brod, Henri [oboist; no relation] ref1
Brod, Max ref1, ref2
and anti-Semitism ref1, ref2, ref3
birth and early years of ref1
death of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
diaries of ref1
estate of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19
and Esther Hoffe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15
family members killed in Holocaust ref1, ref2, ref3
finances of ref1
flight from Prague to Palestine ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
friendship of Kafka and ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
and Germany ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
grave of ref1
and Habima ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
and Hebrew language ref1, ref2, ref3
honors and awards to ref1, ref2
influences on ref1
in Israel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
on Kafka as genius ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Kafka’s illness and death ref1, ref2
and Kafka’s last wish ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n, ref9n
Kafka’s letters to ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
as Kafka’s literary agent ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8, ref9, ref10
as Kafka’s literary executor 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, ref17n, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21
Kafka’s works edited/interpreted by ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10n
letters of ref1n, ref2, ref3
literary legacy of ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
literary output of ref1, ref2, ref3
losses sustained by ref1
and National Library of Israel ref1, ref2
personal traits of ref1, ref2, ref3
in Prague ref1, ref2, ref3
reputation of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Schopenhauer ref1, ref2
street in Tel Aviv named for ref1n
travels with Kafka ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
U.S. refuge sought by ref1
will of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
and women ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Yiddish theater ref1, ref2n, ref3
and Zionism/Judaism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15n
as Zwischenmensch, between cultures ref1, ref2
Brod, Max, works:
Abschied von der Jugend (Farewell to Youth: A Romantic Comedy in Three Acts) ref1
Achot Ketanah ref1
Arkadia ref1
Armer Cicero ref1
Arnold Beer ref1, ref2
autobiography: A Contentious Life (Streitbares Leben) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5
A Czech Servant Girl (Ein tschechisches Dienstmädchen) ref1
Dan the Guard (opera libretto) ref1
“Der jüdische Dichter deutscher Zunge” (“The Jewish Poet of the German Tongue”) ref1n
Der Meister (The Master) ref1
Diary in Verse (Tagebuch in Versen) ref1
Die Musik Israels ref1
Die Rosenkoralle (The Red Coral) ref1
Diesseits und Jenseits (Here and Beyond) ref1
“Franz Kafka the Writer” ref1
Galileo in Shackles ref1
“Hebrew Lesson” (Hebräische Lektion) ref1
Judinnen ( Jewesses) ref1
Jugend im Nebel (Youth in the Fog) ref1
Kafka biography ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Kafka’s opinions of ref1, ref2
The Kingdom of Love (Zauberreich der Liebe) ref1, ref2
in later years ref1
The Miracle on Earth; or the Jewish Idea and Its Realization ref1
musical compositions ref1n
Nornepygge Castle; Novel of the Indifferent Man ref1
“Our Writers and the Community” ref1
Paganism, Christianity, Judaism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n
Pinkas Katan (Sm
all Ledger) [newspaper column] ref1
The Prague Circle (Der Prager Kreis) ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4n
Rassentheorie und Judentum (Race Theory and Judaism) ref1
The Redemption of Tycho Brahe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n
Reubeni: Prince of the Jews ref1, ref2
Richard and Samuel (with Kafka, unfinished joint novel) ref1, ref2
“Selected Works” ref1n
Socialism in Zionism ref1
Three Loves (Die Frau Nach der Man Sich Sehnt or The Woman One Longs For) ref1
“The Three Phases of Zionism” ref1
Tod den Toten! ref1n
Unambo ref1, ref2n
Brod, Otto [brother] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brod, Sophia [sister] ref1
Brodsky, Joseph ref1
Buber, Martin ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15n
Bulow, Ulrich von ref1
Butler, Judith ref1, ref2
Cafe Kassit, Tel Aviv ref1
Café Savoy, Prague ref1
Camus, Albert ref1, ref2
Canetti, Elias ref1, ref2
Carmel, Abraham (Kreppel) ref1n
Casanova ref1
Cassouto, Shmulik ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Celan, Paul ref1n, ref2n, ref3, ref4
Chmurzyński, Wojciech ref1n
Clemens, Samuel ref1
Coe, Peter ref1
Coetzee, J. M. ref1
Cohen, Margot ref1, ref2
Cohen, Oded ref1
Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, New York ref1
Corngold, Stanley ref1n, ref2
Czechoslovakia, creation of ref1
Dante Alighieri ref1, ref2
Danziger, Yoram ref1
Das gelobte Land (Promised Land) ref1
Davar ref1, ref2
Dayan, Moshe ref1
de Gaulle, Charles ref1n
DellaPergola, Sergio ref1n
Der Jude ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n
Derrida, Jacques ref1n
Diamant, Dora ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8n
Die Jüdische Rundschau ref1, ref2
Die Schmiede, publisher ref1
Dietrich, Marlene ref1
Die Zeit ref1, ref2
Dilthey, Wilhelm ref1
Dolejs, Svatopluk ref1n
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ref1
Dreyfus, Alfred ref1
Dumesnil, René ref1
Dvořák, Antonín ref1
Echte, Bernhard ref1
Edelstein, Jacob ref1
Ehrenburg, Ilya ref1
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