GERMANY-ISRAEL-DIPLOMACY-LITERATURE

Ambassador of the State of Israel to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff (L), Generalities Curator of the National Library of Israel Stefan Litt (BackL), CEO of the National Library of Israel Oren Weinberg (BackR) and chairman of the board of the National Library of Israel David Blumberg (FrontR) look at original manuscripts and original exchange of letters between Franz Kafka and Max Brod in the residence of the Ambassador of the State of Israel in Berlin on May 21, 2019. German police on May 21, 2019 hands over to Israel thousands of stolen papers and manuscripts belonging to Max Brod, the friend and literary executor of Czech writer Franz Kafka. Brod, who died in Tel Aviv in 1968, is primarily responsible for Kafka's success as one of the 20th century's most influential writers, having published many of his works after the writer's death in 1924. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)