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Benjamin Balint
Benjamin Balint is the author of Bruno Schulz and Kafka’s Last Trial, awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and is coauthor of Jerusalem: City of the Book. A library fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, he regularly writes on culture for The Wall Street Journal, the Jewish Review of Books, and other publications.
Benjamin Balint
Benjamin Balint is the author of Bruno Schulz and Kafka’s Last Trial, awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and is coauthor of Jerusalem: City of the Book. A library fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, he regularly writes on culture for The Wall Street Journal, the Jewish Review of Books, and other publications.
Awards
Winner — Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, 2020
Winner — National Jewish Book Award, 2024
Shortlisted — Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2024
Books by Benjamin Balint
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint
Paperback, 2019
Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
"Dramatic and illuminating…[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust." —Adam Kirsch, The...Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint
E Book, 2018
Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
"Dramatic and illuminating…[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust." —Adam Kirsch, The...Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
Benjamin Balint
Hardback, 2023
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworksBruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
Benjamin Balint
E Book
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworks