Israel Police probing possible theft of Kafka papers

Haaretz reports:

The Israeli police unit that investigates major international crimes is looking into whether invaluable German manuscripts of author Franz Kafka were stolen from the home of Eva Hoffe, or from somewhere else, Haaretz has learned. Hoffe is the daughter of Esther Hoffe, the secretary of Kafka friend and publisher Max Brod. 

Police found the stolen manuscripts about a month ago. 

They consulted with experts from the National Library in Jerusalem, in order to determine whether they were authentic. Police asked the library for Kafka manuscripts that it possesses, so that the found goods can be compared to them. The National Library's collection includes rare Kafka manuscripts, which are secured in a safe

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Franz Kafka (1992) - Piotr Dumala

A film about a few years from Kafka's life, based mostly on his DIARIES. "Their language, more chaotic and direct, differs from that of the novels - it is expressive, vivid, often crude, but more than anything very detailed and good at conveying the sensuality of the world. It is Kafka whom we do not know from his short stories or aphorisms - one who loves immersing himself in corporality, in people's physiognomies and smells, in the pathological details of their bodies and dress, and in his own, grotesquely enlarged thinness and his body's proneness to illness... Here is not the author of well-known novels, but, first of all, a man" (Barbara Kosecka, "Kwartalnik Filmowy", 19-20/1997). Barbara Kosecka's praise for the film: " 'Franz Kafka', a sixteen-minute masterpiece of animation" ("Kino" 2/2002).

Franz Kafka's "The Trial" - Film, Literature & The New World Order

On this installment of Film, Literature and the New World Order, The Corbett Report delves into Franz Kafka's nightmare vision of a world where nameless accusations initiate extra-legal proceedings against the accused, ensnaring them in a system of control at once pervasive and invisible...a nightmare vision that is slowly coming true.

and, from The Onion: Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

Britain’s 1,000 richest persons made gains of £155bn in last 3 years

According to the blog of Michael Meacher MP

The Sunday Times Rich List, published today and compulsory reading for anybody who wants to understand Britain’s power structure today, holds three extremely significant conclusions.   One is that the 1,000 richest persons in the UK have increased their wealth by so much in the last 3 years – £155bn – that they themselves alone could pay off the entire UK budget deficit and still leave themselves with £30bn to spare which should be enough to keep the wolf from the door.   The second, even more staggering, is that whilst the rest of the country is being crippled by the biggest public expenditure and benefits squeeze for a century, these 1,000 persons, containing many of the bankers and hedge fund and private equity operators who caused the financial crash in the first place, have not been made subject to any tax payback whatever commensurate to their gains.

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