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Kafka's personal library returns home to Prague

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From: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date: 20020228
Author:Bennett, Magnus

Bennett, Magnus
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
02-28-2002
PRAGUE, Feb. 27 (JTA) -- A reconstruction of Franz Kafka's personal library
is finding a home in the Jewish writer's hometown.

The library, which contains more than 1,000 books, magazines, almanacs and
anthologies, was brought to the Czech capital Wednesday by representatives
of the German car company Porsche, who gave the library to the Prague-based
Franz Kafka Society.

The collection was put together by a bookseller in Frankfurt who
painstakingly reconstructed all the books that Kafka, who was born in
Prague and wrote in German, was known to ...

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