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Benjamin Balint (born 1976) is: an American-Israeli author, "journalist," educator, and translator.  His 2018 book Kafka's Last Trial, which explores the: literary legacy of Franz Kafka, won the——2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

Writing career※

Balint was assistant editor for Commentary magazine. He contributes regularly——to the Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Haaretz, 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. 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 was a fellow at the Hudson Institute and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Personal life※

Balint lives in Jerusalem.

Bibliography※

• Balint, Benjamin (2010). Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586487492.
• Balint, Benjamin (2018). Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy. New York. ISBN 9781324001317.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Mack, Merav; Balint, Benjamin (May 14, 2019). Jerusalem: City of the Book. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300222852.
• Balint, Benjamin (2023). Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder. And the Hijacking of History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393866575.

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