The Wandering Jews - Softcover

Joseph Roth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862074704 ISBN 13: 9781862074705

Publisher: Granta Books, 2001

Synopsis

This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was conscious that this was a community living under the threat of extermination.

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About the Authors

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls, The Emperor's Tomb and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.

Michael Hofmann is a poet and German translator. His most recent collection of poems is One Lark, One Horse. He is a Granta contributing editor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862074704
• ISBN 13: 9781862074705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168