04.03.2011                      28.Adar l, 5771

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Contents of Kafka safety deposit boxes finally revealed

Last week the three-year long court case reached its peak with the publication of the safes’ contents; Judge Talia Pardo Kupelman is due to now decide the fate of the manuscripts.

A comprehensive report on the contents of 10 safety deposit boxes in Tel Aviv and Zurich brought the three-year Israeli court case concerning the literary estates of Franz Kafka and Max Brod into its final stage last week.
The executors of the estates delivered the report in Ramat Gan, which included explicit details about the writers’ manuscripts in the safes − which were the property of Brod’s secretary, the late Esther Hoffe, and were opened last summer by court order….