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Dora Diamant (Dwojra Diament, also Dymant) (c. 1900 – 1952) is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. This retention was against the wishes of Kafka, who had requested shortly before his death that they be ...
- Last lover of writer Franz Kafka
- c. 1900, Pabianice, Poland
- Dora Dymant
- 1952, London, England
Dora Diamant - Franz Kafka. 1903-1952. The last woman in Kafka’s life, twenty years younger than Kafka, she was Jewish and hailed from the Polish town of Pabianice. She emigrated to Germany to escape from difficult family circumstances. There is uncertainty about her real date of birth.
Feb 2, 2023 · Learn about the life and work of Franz Kafka, the writer of "The Trial" and "Metamorphosis." Discover how his childhood, religion, politics, and anti-semitism influenced his fiction and his own suffering.
Dec 15, 2022 · Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart. Kathi Diamant on the New Season of Authors in the Tent. By The Virtual Book Channel. December 15, 2022. Authors in the Tent is a professionally filmed series of interviews with established and emerging authors conducted in a tent Ona Russell purchased during the pandemic.
In 1923, Kafka met Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old runaway from a conservative Hasidic family in Galicia. She was his last and happiest love. The six-foot-tall Kafka at that point weighed 118...
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Aug 7, 1999 · Dora Diamant (later changed to Dymant) was born in Bendjin, Poland. Her father, an Orthodox Jew, was a textile manufacturer. When her mother died, leaving five children, her father married a...
May 29, 2015 · Written by David Walker. Published: 29 May 2015. The life of Dora Diamant, a remarkable East Ender by adoption, was commemorated by JEECS on May 26 with a morning service at East Ham Jewish cemetery and an afternoon talk by Professor Kathi Diamant, her biographer, at Toynbee Hall.
