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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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Joseph Roth has 478 books on Goodreads with 105373 ratings. Joseph Roth’s most popular book is The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1).
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.
Jan 6, 2012 · Joseph Roth, who died as Hitler began to destroy Europe, was a great predictor of doom—civilization’s and his own. In this way, he was a perfect man for his era, and perfectly...
Dec 31, 2005 · Michael Hofmann describes his first, fateful encounter with Joseph Roth's work, which became an enduring passion and determined the course of his career.
Feb 23, 2024 · "The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth are collected in English for the first time. These seventeenth stories and novellas, perhaps more than any other work of fiction of Roth (1894-1939), echo the intensity of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March.
