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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 ...
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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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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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, journalist and novelist, was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now Ukraine. Roth was born into a Jewish family. He died in Paris after living there in exile.
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- May 27, 1939
- September 2, 1894
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.
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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...
