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Kafka’s unseen diaries revealed as vaults opened after legal battle

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Published: 9 August 2019

Last updated: 5 March 2024

Trove includes journals, drawings and notebooks and a Hebrew article about a 1922 strike by Jerusalem teachers

After decade-long legal battle, vaults open: Kafka's diaries unveiled in Israel (Haaretz)
National Library at last presents never-before-seen manuscripts by the renowned Czech author, including journals and notebooks featuring words in Hebrew

Never-seen handwritten Kafka manuscripts and drawings unveiled in Jerusalem (Times of Israel)
National Library presentation seen as closing chapter in long battle over writer’s legacy; texts include a Hebrew article about a 1922 strike by Jerusalem teachers

Photo: National Library archival expert and Humanities Collection Curator Stefan Litt shows drawings by novelist Franz Kafka, August 7 (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

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