Before Franz Kafka died, he asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Instead, Brod kept the manuscripts with the intention of donating them to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. But his secretary had a different idea. Mark Gelber, leading Israeli scholar of Austro-Jewish literature, will speak on Franz Kafka and the recent sensational Israeli Supreme Court case regarding the legacy of his manuscripts.

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