Our of the Archives: Amerika, A Musical Tragicomedy in Three Acts and Eleven Scenes, After the Novel by Franz Kafka. Music by Ellis B. Kohs. The above sheet music is from the collections of the Leo Baeck Institute, one of our five partners here at the Center for Jewish History. The Ellis B. Kohs Papers, 1916-2000, can be found at the NYPL’s Performing Arts Library, specifically…
In honor of Franz Kafka’s birthday, click here to view Hans Fronius’s Kafka-Mappe, illustrations of Kafka scenes (Wien, 1946). This publication is made available through an in-progress effort to digitally recreate Europe’s largest pre-Holocaust Judaica library. The $300,000 collaborative project entails digitizing copies of more than 1,000 books that went missing from the library during World War II. The project is funded by the…