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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 ...
Oct 5, 2022 · A prolific journalist from 1917 until his death from alcoholism in 1939, Roth travelled tirelessly throughout central and eastern Europe, filing over a thousand short essays in which he...
May 23, 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.
Nov 26, 2022 · Joseph Roth left Vienna for Paris in the 1920s amid mounting tensions. His 1923 book, “The Spider’s Web,” mentioned Adolf Hitler by name, though Hitler was then still a decade from...
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. Review by...
Mar 4, 2012 · “Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters” fills in some of the blanks in the troubled and abbreviated life of this prominent 20th-century German-language writer.
Feb 3, 2023 · BIOGRAPHY. Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth. Keiron Pim. Granta, $49.99. Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Brody, a small town on the eastern fringes of the sprawling polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today Brody is part of the Lviv oblast in western Ukraine.
Joseph Roth is an author who had considerable fame, died in obscurity at the beginning of World War II and then regained some of his lost fame posthumously. He was born in 1894 in Brody (now in the Ukraine), a primarily Jewish city in Galicia.
Oct 8, 2022 · Life was never going to be easy for Moses Joseph Roth. Before he was born in 1894, his father had abandoned the family home in Galicia, a region now part of western Ukraine.
Dec 12, 2015 · Joseph Roth was a literary maverick; an outsider, rootless and restless, the definitive witness to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dead at 44, Roth had watched as the central...
