The Wandering Jews

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Granta Books, 2001 - Fiction - 146 pages
A masterpiece of the 20th century, only recently discovered in Germany, is now available for the first time in English. In 1927, Joseph Roth (1894-1939), a correspondent in Berlin emotionally ravaged by the events of Weimar Germany, examined the concept of Jewish identity and questioned what lay in store for it.

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About the author (2001)

Author and journalist Joseph Roth was born on September 2, 1894. During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918. Afterwards, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. His best-known works are The Radetzky March and Job. He died in Paris on May 27, 1939 and is buried in Thiais Cemetery.

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