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

Kafka’s Rare Manuscripts: From the Vault in Switzerland to the Library in Jerusalem (via National Library of Israel)

• 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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