Although Kafka became extremely interested in Jewish culture after meeting a troupe of Yiddish actors in 1911, and although he began to study Hebrew shortly after that, it was not until late in his life that he became deeply interested in his heritage. In short, Kafka shared the fate of much of Western Jewry - people who were largely emancipated from their specifically Jewish ways and yet not fully assimilated into the culture of the countries where they lived. Yet from the Czech point of view, Kafka was German, and from the German point of view he was, above all, Jewish. Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka is today considered the most important prose writer of the so-called Prague Circle, a loosely knit group of German-Jewish writers who contributed to the culturally fertile soil of Prague during the 1880s until after World War I.
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