Joseph Roth (September 2, 1894 in Brody - May 27, 1939 in Paris) was an Austrian novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), and for his novel of Jewish life, Job (1930).
Roth grew up in Brody, a small town near Lviv in East-Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Jewish culture played an important role in the life of the town.
After high school, Joseph Roth moved to Lviv to begin his universit...
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Joseph Roth (September 2, 1894 in Brody - May 27, 1939 in Paris) was an Austrian novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), and for his novel of Jewish life, Job (1930).
Roth grew up in Brody, a small town near Lviv in East-Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Jewish culture played an important role in the life of the town.
After high school, Joseph Roth moved to Lviv to begin his university studies in 1913. Only one year later, he settled in Vienna to study philosophy and German literature at the local university. In 1916, Roth quit his university course and volunteered to serve in the Imperial Habsburg army fighting the First World War. This experience had a major and long-lasting influence on his life. So, too, did the collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918, which marked the beginning of a pronounced sense of 'homelessness' that was to feature regularly in his work.
In 1920 he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a highly...
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