Kafka as a Jewish Writer. This book, first published in 1992 and translated into many languages, is now presented in its 5th revised and expanded edition and is considered a standard work in Kafka research worldwide. It uncovers the Jewish-religious roots in Kafka's work and demonstrates through text, motif, and source comparisons how in Kafka's literature the ancient rabbinical and Kabbalistic traditions coexist with the more contemporary experiences of an assimilated Judaism in the former German-Czech city of Prague.