Moses Joseph Roth (Austrian German: [roːt]; 2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian 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 ...
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
Joseph Roth was a writer, as was once said of Henry James, “assailed by the perceptions.” At the same time, Roth’s eye for detail is unerring. In a story called “The Place I Want to Tell You About,” a character, setting out for Vienna, remembers “the umbrella with the ivory handle” before leaving. That ivory handle puts one in the ...
Joseph Roth: Grieving for a Lost Empire - Jewish Review of Books
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.
Books by Joseph Roth 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. The first English language biography of Joseph Roth, Endless Flight by Keiron Pim, was published in October 2022 to critical acclaim.