Abstract
The review deals with Markus Grafenburg's dissertation "Gemeinschaft vor dem Gesetz. Jüdische Identität bei Franz Kafka [Community in front of the law.
Jewish identity in the work of Franz Kafka"]). The study assumes that all of Kafka's writing was only a discussion of Jewish identity, more precisely the "Conditio moderna Judaica".
Here it is like most in Kafka research: One learns a lot about the horizon, which has been determined as the all-important one in advance, which in this case is due to the author's extensive knowledge of Jewish tradition. But the question arises relevance a reading has that only adds another interpretation to the infinite field of existing interpretations.