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Kafka's Last Trial

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by Benjamin Balint


  Stach, Reiner. Kafka: The Decisive Years, trans. Shelley Frisch. Harcourt, 2005; paperback ed. Princeton University Press, 2013.

  ———. Kafka: The Early Years, trans. Shelley Frisch. Princeton University Press, 2016.

  ———. “Kafkas letztes Geheimnis.” Tagesspiel, January 26, 2010.

  ———. “Kafkas Manuskripte: Der Process gehört uns allen.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 7, 2010.

  ———. Is that Kafka? 99 Finds, trans. Kurt Beals. New Directions, 2016.

  ———. Kafka: The Years of Insight, trans. Shelley Frisch. Princeton University Press, 2013.

  Stähler, Axel. “Zur Konstruktion einer ‘zionistischen’ Ethik in Max Brods Romanen Rëubeni, Fürst der Juden und Zauberreich der Liebe.” In Die Konstruktion des Jüdischen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, eds. Alexandra Ponten and Henning Theissen. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003.

  Starobinski, Jean. “Kafka’s Judaism.” European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 8:2 (Summer 1974).

  Steiner, George. “K.” In Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman. Yale University Press, 1998.

  Steiner, Marianna. “The Facts about Kafka.” New Statesman, February 8, 1958.

  Stern, J. P. “On Prague German Literature.” In The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology. Blackwell, 1992.

  Suchoff, David. “Kafka and the Postmodern Divide: Hebrew and German in Aharon Appelfeld’s The Age of Wonders.” The Germanic Review 75:2, 2000.

  ———. Kafka’s Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

  Sudaka-Bénazéraf, Jacqueline. Le regard de Franz Kafka: Dessins d’un écrivain. Maisonneuve & Larose, 2001.

  Susman, Margarete. “Franz Kafka,” trans. Theodore Frankel. Jewish Frontier 23, 1956.

  Swales, Martin. “Why Read Kafka?” Modern Language Review 76, 1981.

  Taussig, Ernst F., ed. Ein Kampf um Wahrheit: Max Brod zum 65. Geburtstag. ABC-Verlag, 1949.

  Teller, Judd L. “Modern Hebrew Literature of Israel.” Middle East Journal 7:2 (Spring 1953).

  Thieberger, Friedrich. Erinnerungen an Kafka, ed. Hans-Gerd Koch. 1995.

  Unseld, Joachim. Franz Kafka: Ein Schriftstellerleben. Hanser, 1982 [Franz Kafka: A Writer’s Life, trans. Paul F. Dvorak. Ariadne, 1994].

  Vassogne, Gaëlle. Max Brod in Prag: Identität und Vermittlung. Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009.

  ———. “Max Brod, Tomáš G. Masaryk et la reconnaissance de la nationalité juive en Tchécoslovaquie.” Tsafon 52, 2006–2007.

  Vogl, Joseph. Der Ort der Gewalt: Kafkas literarische Ethik. Fink, 1990.

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  Warshow, Robert. “Kafka’s Failure.” Partisan Review, April 1949.

  Weidner, Daniel. “Max Brod, Gershom Scholem Und Walter Benjamin: Drei Konstellationen Theologischer Literaturkritik im Deutschen Judentum.” In Literatur im Religionswandel der Moderne: Studien zur christlichen und jüdischen Literaturgeschichte, eds. Alfred Bodenheimer, Georg Pfleiderer, and Bettina von Jagow. Theologischer Verlag, 2009, 195–220.

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  ———. “Max Brod: A Study in Unity and Duality,” trans. Harry Zohn. Judaism, Winter 1965.

  ———. Max Brod and His Age. Leo Baeck Institute, 1970.

  ———. Religion und Humor im Leben und Werk Franz Kafkas. Herbig, 1957 (Bialik Institute, 1959) [Hebrew].

  ———, ed. Dichter, Denker, Helfer: Max Brod zum fünfzigsten Geburstag. Julius Kittls Nachfolger, Keller & Co., 1934.

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  Wilk, Melvin. The Jewish Presence in Two Major Moderns: Eliot and Kafka. PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1978.

  Wilson, Edmund. “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka.” In Classics and Commercials. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1950.

  Wisse, Ruth. “The Logic of Language and the Trials of the Jews: Franz Kafka and Y. H. Brenner.” In The Modern Jewish Canon. University of Chicago, 2003.

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  Wolff, Kurt. Autoren, Bücher, Abenteuer. Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen eines Verlegers. Wagenbach Verlag, 1965.

  Woods, Michelle. Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped our Reading of Kafka. Bloomsbury, 2013.

  Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. “Series Z. An Archival Fantasy.” Psychomedia: Journal of European Psychoanalysis, Spring 1997/Winter 1997.

  Yildiz, Yasemin. “The Uncanny Mother Tongue: Monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka.” In Beyond the Mother Tongue. Fordham University Press, 2012.

  Yudkin, Leon I. In and Out: The Prague Circle and Czech Jewry. L. Marek, 2011.

  Zabel, Hermann, ed. Stimmen aus Jerusalem: zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur in Palästina/Israel. Lit Verlag, 2006.

  Zeller, B. “Fünf Jahre Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach. Ergebnisse, Erfahrungen, Planungen.” In In Libro Humanitas. Festschrift für Wilhelm Hoffmann zum 60 Geburtstag. Ernst Klett, 1962.

  ———. Marbacher Memorabilien. Vom Schiller-Nationalmuseum zum Deutschen Literaturarchiv 1933–1973. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 1995.

  Zeller, B., et al. Klassiker in finsteren Zeiten, 1933–1945. Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Literaturarchivs im Schiller Nationalmuseum, Marbach am Neckar. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft Marbach, 1983.

  Zimmermann, Moshe. “The Chameleon and the Phoenix: Germany in the Eyes of Israel.” In Avar Germani—Zikaron Israeli. Am Oved, 2002.

  Zinger, Miriam. “Kafka’s Hebrew Teacher.” Orot 6, 1969.

  Zohn, Harry. “Max Brod at Seventy-Five.” Jewish Frontier, October 1959.

  Zweig, Stefan. Foreword to The Redemption of Tycho Brahe by Max Brod, trans. Felix Waren Crosse. Knopf, 1928.

  Zylberberg, H. “Das tragische Ende der drei Schwestern Kafkas.” Wort und Tat, 1946/1947, Heft 2.

  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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