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Joseph Roth

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Joseph Roth · Arts & Literature

What

Austrian novelist ('The Radetzky March')

When

1894, Brody, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) — 1939, Paris, France

Where

Austria · Ukraine · France

Biography

Joseph Roth is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Austrian novelist ('The Radetzky March')

How & why

Roth was an Austrian Jewish novelist and journalist, best known for The Radetzky March, an elegiac chronicle of the Habsburg Empire's decline. Forced into exile by the Nazis, he died in Paris. He was born into a Jewish family in Galicia and often wrote about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature

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Austrian novelist ('The Radetzky March')

1894

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature