Kafka's Last Trial

by Benjamin Balint

  Ehrenstein, Albert ref1n

  Einstein, Albert ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4n

  Eisner, Pavel ref1, ref2

  Eliot, T. S. ref1, ref2, ref3

  Eliot, Valerie ref1

  Emrich, Wilhelm ref1

  Erhard, Ludwig ref1

  Eshkol, Levi ref1

  Etgar, Yeshayahu ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Faktor, Emil ref1

  Faynman, Zygmund ref1

  Feierberg, M. Z. ref1

  Fenves, Peter ref1n

  Finkel, Shimon ref1

  Fischer, Gottfried ref1n

  Flaubert, Gustave ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Flores, Angel ref1n

  Franz Josef I, Kaiser ref1

  Freud, Sigmund ref1, ref2n

  Freud, Victor Mathias ref1n

  Friedländer, Saul, Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt ref1

  Friesel, Evyatar ref1n

  Frisch, Shelley ref1

  Fritsch, Werner ref1

  Froehlich, Elio ref1

  Fromer, Jakob ref1

  Gabrieli, Arnan ref1

  Galerie Gerd Rosen ref1

  Garel, Georges ref1

  Geissler, Benjamin ref1n

  Gelber, Mark ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n

  Gellner, Julius ref1

  George, Stefan ref1

  German Literature Archive, see Marbach

  Germany:

  Brod’s manuscripts seized in ref1, ref2

  cultural heritage protection law ref1

  cultural legacy of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Czechoslovakia annexed by ref1, ref2

  and Holocaust ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and Israel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and Kafka’s Jewishness ref1

  Kafka’s move to ref1, ref2

  Kafka’s works published in ref1, ref2

  language and literature of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16n

  and Munich Agreement ref1

  national identity of ref1, ref2, ref3

  and Prussia ref1

  Gershuni, Gershon K. ref1

  Gluzman, Michael ref1

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Goethe Archive ref1

  Goldfaden, Avrom ref1

  Goldstein, Moritz, “The German-Jewish Parnassus” ref1

  Gordin, Jacob ref1

  Gordon, A. D. ref1

  Gould, Glenn ref1

  Grade, Chaim ref1

  Graetz, Heinrich ref1

  Grafton, Anthony ref1

  Grass, Günter ref1, ref2

  Graves, Robert ref1

  Greenberg, Clement ref1n

  Greene, Graham ref1n

  Grillparzer, Franz ref1

  Gross, John ref1n

  Grossman, David ref1, ref2n

  Grözinger, Karl Erich ref1

  Kafka and Kabbalah ref1

  Gruenberg, Abraham ref1

  Grunfeld, Frederick V. ref1

  Gruppe ref1, ref2, ref3n

  Grütters, Monika ref1

  Guthrie, Tyron ref1

  Ha’am, Ahad ref1, ref2, ref3

  Haaretz ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Haas, Simon Fritz ref1

  Haas, Willy ref1, ref2, ref3

  Habima theater ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n

  Habsburg Empire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n

  Hácha, Emil ref1

  Hachavazelet ref1

  Halper, Shaun J. ref1n

  Hammerman, Ilana ref1n

  Hanser Verlag ref1

  Harati, Ilan ref1

  Harel, Zvi ref1

  Ha-Reubeni, David ref1n

  Harshav, Benjamin ref1n

  Har-Shefi, Yoella ref1

  Hauptmann, Gerhart ref1

  Hauschner, Auguste ref1

  Hay, Louis ref1n

  Hazaz, Haim ref1

  Hebbel, Friedrich ref1

  Hebel, Johann Peter ref1

  Hebrew language ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n

  Hebrew University ref1, ref2, ref3

  and Brod’s estate ref1

  and National Library ref1; see also National Library of Israel

  Hedeyat, Sadeq ref1n

  Hefer, Haim ref1

  Heidegger, Martin ref1n

  Heine, Heinrich ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n

  Heinrich Mercy Verlag ref1

  Heller, Erich ref1

  Heller, Meir ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Hermann, Gerti ref1

  Hermann, Leo ref1

  Herzl, Theodor ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n

  Hess, Moses ref1

  Hesse, Hermann ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Hillel, teachings of ref1

  Hilsner, Leopold ref1

  Hitler, Adolf ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hoffe, Esther (Ilse) [mother]:

  and access to Brod’s and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  birth and background of ref1

  and Brod’s estate ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  Brod’s relationship with ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  death of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  estate of ref1, ref2, ref3

  financial gain from sales of papers ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10n

  Gedichte aus Israel (Poems from Israel) ref1

  inventory of manuscripts in possession of ref1

  Israel’s suit against ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n

  and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15

  and National Library of Israel ref1, ref2

  reparations from Germany to ref1

  safe-deposit boxes of ref1, ref2, ref3

  will of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Hoffe, Eva ref1

  birth and early years of ref1

  and Brod’s estate ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  and Esther’s will ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  finances of ref1

  and first appeal ref1

  and first trial ref1, ref2

  and inventory of manuscripts ref1

  and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  and last appeal ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  memories of Brod ref1, ref2, ref3

  and request for new hearing ref1

  and safe-deposit boxes ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and sales of manuscripts ref1, ref2, ref3

  in Tel Aviv ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hoffe, Otto [father] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hoffe, Ruth (Weisler) [sister] ref1

  and Brod’s estate ref1, ref2, ref3

  death of ref1

  and Esther’s will ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and first trial ref1

  and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hoffe family ref1, ref2

  and Brod’s estate ref1, ref2

  escape from Prague ref1, ref2

  and Kafka’s papers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  safe-deposit boxes of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hoffmann, Camill ref1n

  Hoffmann und Campe Verlag ref1n

  Hofmannsthal, Hugo von ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Hölderlin, Friedrich ref1, ref2

  Holocaust:

  Brod’s family members murdered in ref1, ref2, ref3

  and German language ref1, ref2

  guilt connected to ref1

  horrors of ref1

  and Jewish cultural legacy ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4

  Kafka’s family members murdered in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n

  postwar writings on ref1

  survivors of ref1, ref2, ref3

  and Yad V
ashem ref1n

  see also Nazi Party

  Horkheimer, Max ref1

  Howarth, Herbert ref1n

  Howe, Irving ref1, ref2

  Hughes, Ted ref1

  Hugo, Victor ref1

  Husák, Gustáv ref1n

  Hyperion ref1

  Idel, Moshe, Old Worlds, New Mirrors ref1

  I. G. Farben, Offenbach ref1

  Ionescu, Eugène ref1

  Isak, Haim ref1n

  Israel:

  Archives Law (1955) ref1

  and Balfour Declaration ref1

  cultural legacy of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16; see also National Library of Israel

  Declaration of Independence ref1n, ref2

  and Diaspora ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  emigration to ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6, ref7

  and German language ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and German reparations ref1

  Gift Law in ref1n

  and Holocaust ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  and Jewish identity ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and Kafka’s works ref1, ref2, ref3

  lawsuit for possession of Kafka manuscripts ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; see also Supreme Court of Israel; Tel Aviv District Court; Tel Aviv Family Court

  and Mecelle law ref1

  Six-Day War (1967) ref1

  State Archives of ref1

  Succession Law (1965) ref1, ref2, ref3

  War of Independence (1948) ref1, ref2, ref3

  James, Henry ref1

  Janáček, Leoš ref1

  Jelinek, Elfriede ref1

  Jesenská, Milena ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  Jewish National Council ref1

  Jílovská, Staša ref1

  JNUL, see National Library of Israel

  Job, Book of ref1, ref2n

  Joel, Issachar ref1

  Johst, Hanns ref1

  Jokl, Anna Maria ref1n

  Jonson, Ben ref1

  Joubran, Salim ref1

  Joyce, James ref1, ref2n

  Judaism:

  and Zionism ref1; see also Zionism

  Jüdische Verlag ref1

  Kadishman, Menashe ref1

  Kafka (film) ref1n

  Kafka, Elli [sister] ref1, ref2n, ref3

  Kafka, Franz ref1, ref2

  aging and illness of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Amschel (Yiddish name) ref1

  and anti-Semitism ref1

  and Brod, see Brod, Max

  cult of ref1

  and cultural legacy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n, ref12, ref13, ref14n, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20

  death of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  diaries of ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  elegy for ref1

  family background of ref1

  family members killed by Nazis ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n

  and German language and culture ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  in Germany ref1, ref2

  Hebrew studies of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n

  and his father ref1, ref2

  influence of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5n

  influences on ref1

  and Jesenská, see Jesenská, Milena

  and Jewishness/Zionism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17n, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22n, ref23n, ref24n, ref25n

  last wish of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13n, ref14n

  library of ref1

  living heirs of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  on music ref1

  papers of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22

  personal traits of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  poor self-image of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  in Prague ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  qualities in work of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  reputation of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5, ref6n, ref7

  will of ref1n, ref2, ref3n

  and women ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  and Yiddish theater ref1

  Kafka, Franz, works:

  Amerika ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8n

  “Before the Law” ref1n, ref2, ref3

  Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer (The Great Wall of China) ref1

  The Blue Octavo Notebooks ref1, ref2

  “Blumfeld” ref1

  “The Burrow” (“Der Bau”) ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5

  “The Cares of a Family Man” (“Die Sorge des Hausvaters”) ref1

  The Castle ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n, ref12n

  Collected Works ref1n

  A Country Doctor ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Description of a Struggle” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  “The Giant Mole” ref1n

  A Hunger Artist ref1, ref2, ref3

  “An Imperial Message” ref1

  “In the Penal Colony” ref1, ref2

  “Investigations of a Dog” ref1, ref2, ref3n

  “Jackals and Arabs” ref1, ref2

  “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk” ref1, ref2, ref3

  “The Judgment” ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5

  Letters to Milena (Briefe an Milena) ref1n

  letter to his father ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  “A Little Woman” ref1

  Meditation (Betrachtung) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n

  “The Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n, ref10n

  obscure character types in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  ownership of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  posthumous publication of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “The Problem of Our Laws” (parable) ref1

  “Prometheus” ref1

  “The Rejection” ref1n

  “A Report to an Academy” ref1, ref2, ref3

  Sämtliche Erzählungen (Raabe, ed.) ref1

  sketches and doodles ref1, ref2, ref3n

  “Speech on the Yiddish Language” ref1, ref2n

  “The Stoker” ref1n, ref2, ref3n, ref4

  translations of ref1, ref2n, ref3n

  The Trial ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8, ref9n, ref10n, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14n, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18n, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26n, ref27n, ref28n

  “The Village Schoolmaster” ref1n, ref2, ref3

  “Wedding Preparations in the Country” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Kafka, Hermann [father] ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Kafka, Ottla [sister] ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n

  Kafka, Siegfried [uncle] ref1

  Kafka, Valli [sister] ref1

  “Kafkaesque” ref1n

  “Kafka’s Last Story” (film) ref1

  Kallen, Horace ref1

  Kant, Immanuel ref1

  Kaufman, Gerti ref1n

  Kepler, Johannes ref1

  Keren Ha-Yesod ref1

  Kern, Christian ref1

  Keshet, Yeshurun ref1n

  Kiepenheuer, Gustav ref1

  Kierkegaard, Søren ref1, ref2

  Kilcher, Andreas ref1

  Kisch, Egon Erwin ref1, ref2

  Kittl, Julius ref1

  Klausner, Joseph ref1

  Kleist, Heinrich von ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
r />   Klíma, Ivan ref1, ref2n

  Klopstock, Robert ref1

  Klossowski, Pierre ref1n

  Koch, Hans-Gerd ref1

  Kohn, Hans ref1

  Kolár, František J. ref1n

  Kollek, Teddy ref1

  Kopelevitz, Jakob ref1n

  Kopelman Pardo, Talia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Koralnik, Eva ref1

  Kornfeld, Edna ref1, ref2n

  Kostrouchová Davidová, Helena ref1

  Kracauer, Siegfried ref1n

  Kraft, Werner ref1, ref2n

  Kraus, Karl ref1, ref2n

  Krauss, Nicole, Forest Dark ref1, ref2

  Krueger, Michael ref1

  Kruk, Herman ref1n

  Krupp, Alfried ref1

  Kuehn, Heinz ref1

  Kulka, Otto Dov ref1, ref2

  Kundera, Milan ref1n, ref2

  Testaments Betrayed ref1

  Kurzweil, Baruch ref1

  Lachower, Fischel ref1n

  Lamdan, Yitzhak ref1

  Langer, Georg ( Jiří) Mordechai ref1, ref2

  Larkin, Philip ref1

  Lasker-Schüler, Else ref1n, ref2, ref3n

  Lavry, Marc ref1

  law:

  on acquisition of papers from living authors ref1, ref2, ref3

  cultural heritage protection ref1, ref2

  on gifts vs. inheritance ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  and judicial violence ref1

  Kafka’s motif of ref1, ref2

  Mecelle law ref1

  and ownership of art ref1

  posthumous handling of literary estates ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  and private property rights vs. public interest ref1, ref2, ref3

  on “successive heirs” ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lehár, Franz ref1

  Lenz, Siegfried ref1n

  Lepper, Marcel ref1

  Lessing, Doris ref1n, ref2

  Lev-Ari, Shimon ref1

  Levi, Jacques (Löwy) ref1

  Levi, Primo ref1n

  Levi-Korem, Yaniv ref1

  Lewin, Rabbi Joshua Heshel ref1

  Lewy, Tom ref1

  Leyris, Pierre ref1n

  Liblice conference ref1n

  Lichtheim, Richard ref1, ref2

  Lieger, Leopold ref1

  Liepman Literary Agency ref1

  Lindström, Carl ref1

  Lintdberg, Leopold ref1, ref2

  Liska, Vivian ref1

  Litt, Stefan ref1, ref2

  Lowell, Robert ref1

  Löwy, Juliet ref1, ref2, ref3

  Löwy, Yitzhak ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lozowick, Yaacov ref1

  Luther, Martin ref1, ref2

  Lydenberg, H. M. ref1

  Maariv ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Magnes, Judah ref1

  Maimonides, teachings of ref1

  Malek, Nayrouz, Kafka’s Flowers ref1n

  Mandelstamm, Max ref1n

  Mann, Heinrich ref1, ref2n, ref3, ref4

  Mann, Klaus ref1

  Mann, Thomas ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n

  Maor, Zohar ref1n