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.

Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

Benjamin Balint on the Unlikely Discovery of an Artistic Legacy

April 11, 2023 By Benjamin Balint

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Kafka’s Last Wish, Brod’s First Betrayal

On the (Non) Burning of the Manuscript

September 18, 2018 By Benjamin Balint

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