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Benjamin Balint (born 1976) is an American-Israeli author, journalist, educator, and translator.  His 2018 book explores the literary legacy of Franz Kafka.[1]

Writing career

Balint was assistant editor for Commentary magazine.[2] He contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Haaretz,[3] the Weekly Standard, and the Claremont Review of Books.

His 2018 book Kafka’s Last Trial narrates the journey of Kafka's manuscripts from Czechoslovakia to Israel's National Library.[1][4] For this work, Balint was awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.[5] The book was also a finalist for the 2020 Wingate Literary Prize.[6]

Balint was a fellow at the Hudson Institute[2][5] and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.[5]

Personal life

Balint lives in Jerusalem.[7]

Bibliography

• Balint, Benjamin (2010). Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right. PublicAffairs. ISBN 1586487493.
• Balint, Benjamin (2018). Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy. New York. ISBN 9781324001317.
• Mack, Merav; Balint, Benjamin (May 14, 2019). Jerusalem: City of the Book. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300222852.

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[de] Benjamin Balint

Benjamin Balint (geboren 1976 in den USA) ist ein US-amerikanisch-israelischer Schriftsteller und Kulturjournalist, der in Jerusalem arbeitet.

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