Reuters: Israel’s National Library to Share Reunited Kafka Archive Online
From Reuters:
Israel’s national library said on Wednesday it received the last part of a collection of Franz Kafka’s writings that it planned to put online, after winning an ownership battle for part of the Prague-born Jewish novelist’s literary estate.
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The library said that since court proceedings ended in 2016, it has been collecting the papers from sites in Israel and Germany and, finally two weeks ago, from a Swiss bank vault.
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Litt said hoped some of the archive would be available on the Internet by the end of the year.
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Additional Resources
- The Drawings of Franz Kafka (via National Library of Israel)
- Kafka’s “Blue Notebook” Revealed
- The Fate of Franz Kafka’s Archive (via National Library of Israel)
Final Batch Of Brod And Kafka Items Returned To Israel (via Jerusalem Post)
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