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February 17, 2023

The Brilliant, Tragic, and Complicated Life of an Austrian Jewish Literary Master

Joseph Roth’s flight without end.

The author of such novels as Job, The Radetzky March, and The Emperor’s Tomb, Joseph Roth is widely considered one of the 20th-century’s greatest German-language writers. Roth was also a prolific and perceptive journalist and essayist—and the very first to report on the doings of Adolf Hitler. Frederic Raphael reviews a recent biography of Roth:

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