Title: Kafka's Last Trial
Description: When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka’s work, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction.

Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership: Israel, where Kafka dreamed of living, or Germany, where Kafka’s three sisters perished in the Holocaust? Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts— brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political—that determined the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts.
Subjects: Kafka, franz, 1883-1924, Law, israel, Law, germany, Inheritance and succession, Prague (czech republic), history, Germanic literature
Places: Germany, Israel
People: Franz Kafka (1883-1924)