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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 ...
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...
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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.
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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 gaining...
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Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an Austro-Hungarian novelist whose books have been recommended many times on Five Books, his Radetzky March in particular hailed as one of the classics of European literature.
Radetzky March (German: Radetzkymarsch) is a 1932 family saga novel by Joseph Roth chronicling the decline and fall of Austria-Hungary via the story of the Trotta family. Radetzkymarsch is an early example of a story that features the recurring participation of a historical figure, in this case the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916).
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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.