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Franz Kafka's life (1883-1924) and connection to Judaism is covered in the main article Franz Kafka. Additional discussion is provided here.

Franz kafka nationality

Beginning with the correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (or possibly before that, when Martin Buber became one of Franz Kafka's first publishers) interpretations, speculations, and reactions to Kafka's Judaism became so substantial during the 20th century as to virtually constitute an entire minor literature. Meditations about how and to what extent Kafka anticipated or represented the incoming Holocaust of the European Jewry comprise a major component of most scholarship along these lines.

Kafka and Jewish mysticism

Shortly after he began to write The Castle (which he never finished), Kafka wrote in his diary that he had "suffered something very like a breakdown." Near the end of the entry he wrote:

"All such writing is an assault on all frontiers...it might easily have developed in