Joseph Roth

Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)

Died
1939
Moses Joseph Roth was an Austrian novelist, journalist and essayist, born into a Jewish family in Galicia in Austria-Hungary. He is widely regarded as one of the major German-language writers of the interwar period. His best-known fiction includes Job (1930), Radetzky March (1932), The Emperor's Tomb (1938) and the posthumously published novella The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1939). His nonfiction includes The Wandering Jews (1927), an extended work of reportage on eastern European Jewish migration.

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