Henry Roth
Henry Roth · Arts & Literature
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1906, Tysmenytsia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) — 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Austria-Hungary · United States
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Henry Roth was an American novelist whose 1934 debut 'Call It Sleep,' portraying an immigrant Jewish boy's childhood on New York's Lower East Side, is regarded as a masterpiece of Jewish-American and modernist literature, rediscovered decades after publication. Born to a Jewish family in Galicia, he immigrated to the United States as a child. He was Jewish.
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