Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was born Moses Joseph Roth in Brody, a small town in the eastern reaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is now Ukraine. He studied at the universities of Lemberg and Vienna, served in the Austrian army during World War I, and became one of the most celebrated journalists in Weimar-era Berlin, writing for the Frankfurter Zeitung. The collapse of the Habsburg Empire haunted his imagination, and nostalgia for that lost, polyglot world became the defining current of his fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Radetzky March.