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When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscri

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.

This cultural history maps the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the 20th century. It explores