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- Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English as The Wandering Jews), a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st...
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Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English as The Wandering ...
Aug 29, 2024 · Joseph Roth was a journalist and regional novelist who, particularly in his later novels, mourned the passing of an age of stability he saw represented by the last pre-World War I years of the Habsburg empire of Austria-Hungary. Details about Roth’s early years, religious beliefs, and personal life.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 5, 2022 · “Our whole lives are games of roulette,” the journalist and novelist Joseph Roth wrote with defiant bravura in 1925 in one of his early articles as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung.
- Rebecca Abrams
Jan 5, 2023 · The rootless, brilliant and tragic life of Joseph Roth. ‘Endless Flight,’ by Keiron Pim, is a biography of the acclaimed novelist who vividly captured life between the world wars. All his life...
- Morten Hoi Jensen
Nov 26, 2022 · He’s a soft-spoken 44-year-old writer from Norwich, England, self-described as someone who blinks a lot. And he has recently produced the first English-language biography of Joseph Roth, the...
- Casey Schwartz
Moses Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Brody, a Galician town of roughly 18,000 people, two-thirds of whom were Jewish, on the border between Poland and Ukraine, 54 miles north-east of Lemberg (now called Lviv). He never knew his father, who died in a mental asylum.
Jul 17, 2019 · How Joseph Roth saw Europe’s future. The Austrian novelist had a feel for the mood of the streets – and spotted the warning signs of the Second World War. By Paul Scraton.
