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Franz Kafka was born into the German speaking, Jewish community of Prague, Bohemia (then in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1883. Working in an office of an insurance company, Kafka wrote stylistically pathbreaking, modernist short stories and novels, which were mostly published posthumously. Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924.

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Studio portrait of Franz Kafka, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2258.