Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0826406599, Hardcover)

To understand Kafka, this book argues, one must consider him foremost as a Jewish writer. In clear, jargon-free fashion, Grozinger considers the influence on Kafka on the Kabbalah, which is both the dominant source of Eastern Jewish thought and Hasidism. Virtually all that has come to be called Kafkaesque has its origin and foundation in the Kabbalah.