He was astonished by the Jewish community of Eastern Europe because he claimed that they possessed a spiritual lifestyle Western Europe did not have. However, he wasn’t particularly so familiar with the religion or the practices attributed to it. Some writers claimed that Kafka’s writings were Jewish in the context of characters and events, and others claimed that there isn’t a connection whatsoever between Jewishness or Zionism and Kafka’s literary works. Kafka obtained his fame after his death for he published very few stories during his lifetime. He only finished his novella The Metamorphosis but never had the chance to finish his remaining novels. He gave a direct order to his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all his drafts
