Benjamin Balint
Benjamin Balint (born 1976 in the USA ) is an American-Israeli writer and cultural journalist who works in Jerusalem .
Life
Benjamin Balint studied philosophy, comparative literature and Jewish studies. From 2001 to 2004 he worked for Commentary magazine . From 2009 to 2010 he was a fellow of the Hudson Institute . In the winter of 2010 he stayed in Hamburg as an Ernst Cramer scholar . From 2011, Balint held a three-year teaching position in literature at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. He is a library fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.
Balint writes for The Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard . He translates articles and poems for The New Yorker and other English language magazines from the Ivrit .
In his book Kafka's last trial 2018, Balint investigated the literary estate of Franz Kafka saved by Max Brod and the legal dispute over the future storage location.
Fonts (selection)
- Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right . New York: PublicAffairs: 2010
- Yosef Mendelevich : Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story Of Faith, Courage and Survival . Translation from the Hebrew Benjamin Balint. New Jersey: Gefen, 2012. ISBN 978-9652295637
- (Co-author): Fodor's Israel . New York: Fodor's, 2014
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Kafka's last trial: the case of a literary legacy . New York: WW Norton & Company, 2018
- Kafka's last trial . Translation from English Anne Emmert. Berlin: Berenberg, 2019 ISBN 978-3-946334-48-4
- (Co-author with Merav Mack): Jerusalem. City of the Book . Yale: University Press, 2019 ISBN 978-0300222852
literature
- Marc Reichwein: Some papers were in a switched off refrigerator . Interview, in: The Literary World , May 11, 2019, p. 27
- Wolfgang Schneider: Not an idol for Zionists . Review, in: FAZ, May 25, 2019, p. 14
Web links
- Literature by and about Benjamin Balint in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Benjamin Balint at perlentaucher.de
- Benjamin Balint Kafka's last trial , at Berenberg
Individual evidence
- ^ Benjamin Balint , at WW Norton
- ^ Benjamin Balint , at books and ideas
- ↑ Nico Schulte-Ebbert: Aktenzeichen FK (un-) solved Benjamin Balint's “Kafka's Last Trial” is (unfortunately) more than a court report. In: literaturkritik.de. July 2, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balint, Benjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balint, Benjamin Z. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Israeli writer and cultural journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |