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Milena Jesenská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlɛna ˈjɛsɛnskaː]; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. She is noted for her correspondence with the author Franz Kafka and was one of the first to translate his work from the German language.
Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923. The English translation of the letters states, "Whereas Kafka generally wrote to Milena in German, most of her letters were in her mother tongue" of Czech (p. xvii).
Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.His father, Hermann Kafka (1854–1931), was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, [11] [12] a shochet or ritual slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia. [13]
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Oskar Pollak - Childhood friend and art historian; a 1902 letter to him includes Kafka's oldest surviving work of fiction - "Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart" Max Brod - Closest friend; writer and Kafka's literary executor Elsa Brod, née Taussig - Brod's wife; Sophie Friedmann, née Brod - Brod's sister
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