The online archive includes a number of previously unpublished drawings by the storied German-speaking Jewish novelist that were kept by his friend Max Brod, who later moved to Israel


Following Brod's death in 1968, a multi-country legal soap opera -- some might even call it "Kafkaesque" -- entangled rights holders and academics for years.

After years of court proceedings and searches, the fifth and final cache was located in a vault at the Zurich headquarters of UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, and released after a Swiss court ruling.

Most of the recovered material had already been published by Brod -- but two surprises were in store for archivists in Jerusalem.

"We discovered unpublished drawings, neither signed nor dated, but that Brod had kept," said Litt, who showed drawings of characters on small pieces of paper, including drawings of Kafka's mother and a self-portrait.

"The big surprise we received when we opened these documents was his blue notebook, in which Kafka wrote in Hebrew, signing 'K', his usual signature," Litt said.




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Tha archive also includes a previously unpublished notebook in which Kafka wrote the entries in Hebrew but signed them with the Roman letter K, his usual signature


In one of the entries in his notebook, dated to 1920, he asks a teacher in Hebrew not to get angry for mistakes in his homework -- "because I am already angry for both of us."

But for Litt, there's only one regret: the "ancient treasures treasure hunter treasure hunt pirate treasures ancient treasures" from Switzerland included German leaflets written by Kafka, but none of them unpublished.