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    Benjamin Balint is the author of "Kafka’s Last Trial," winner of the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. His most recent book, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History," won a National Jewish Book Award.

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