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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 power....
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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.
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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.
Oct 6, 2022 · J oseph Roth always knew when to get out. As a young man, he ran like hell from his birthplace of Brody, a small, struggling town in Galicia, on the northern fringe of the Austro-Hungarian empire.