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Learn moreWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka's last instruction: to burn his manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership of Kafka's work: Israel, where he dreamed of living, or Germany, where his 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 the oeuvre. Kafka's Last Trial is a brilliant biographical portrait of a literary genius as well as the story of two countries whose national obsession with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters.
Benjamin Balint is a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. He has written for The Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard, and his translations from Hebrew have appeared in The New Yorker. He lives in Jerusalem.
Gregg Rizzo has a background in commercial voiceover and has narrated countless audiobooks. He feels lucky to have found interconnecting passions that fuel his creativity. His appreciation of storytelling, people, and photography comes to life in his performances, which evoke imagery and ideas that resonate with the senses.