Max Brod was a Bohemian-born Israeli author, composer, and journalist.
Brod in 1914
Brod (right) with stage directors of the Habima theatre in Tel Aviv, 1942
Max Brod (right) with Paul Ben-Haim and his wife
Brod at the Schiphol airport in the Netherlands, 1965
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
Kafka in 1923
Franz Kafka's sisters as children, from the left Valli, Elli, Ottla
Kinský Palace where Kafka attended gymnasium and his father owned a shop
Former home of the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute