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Benjamin Balint

b. 1976

American-Israeli author, journalist, educator, and translator

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About Benjamin Balint

Born 1976. Benjamin Balint is an American journalist, translator, non-fiction writer, literary scholar, librarian and university teacher.

Benjamin Balint (born 1976) is an American-Israeli author, journalist, educator, and translator. His 2018 book Kafka's Last Trial, which explores the fate of Franz Kafka's manuscripts, which Max Brod declined to follow Kafka's instructions to burn, won the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. He contributes regularly to The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Haaretz, The Weekly Standard, and the Claremont Review of Books. A documentary film directed by Eliran Peled, titled Kafka's Last Trial and based on the book, was released in 2025, with Balint one of the speakers who appears in it.

Balint's 2018 book Kafka's Last Trial narrates the journey of Kafka's manuscripts from Czechoslovakia to the National Library of Israel. For this work, Balint was awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The book was also a finalist for the 2020 Wingate Literary Prize.

Balint's 2023 book, Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History, won the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category.

Balint was a fellow at the Hudson Institute

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1976, United States, Seattle
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Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

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Who is Benjamin Balint?

American-Israeli author, journalist, educator, and translator

When was Benjamin Balint born?

Benjamin Balint was born in 1976 in United States, Seattle.

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Benjamin Balint is a journalist, translator, non-fiction writer, literary scholar, librarian and university teacher.

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Benjamin Balint is American.

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· Wikipedia: Benjamin Balint

· Wikidata: Q61963776

· DBpedia: Benjamin Balint

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