Wailing Wall

Joseph Roth

1929

In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence call on Grenadierstrasse. It was a hot day. All the doors were open, as were many windows. There was a reek of onions, fish, fat, and fruit, of infants…

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Joseph Roth

1894–1939

The German-language novelist and journalist Joseph Roth was born in Galicia and attended university in Lvov and Vienna. He served in World War I and witnessed the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, experiences that were the focus of much of his fiction. In the interwar years, he lived and worked in Berlin and later Paris as a well-respected and highly paid journalist. His masterpiece was The Radetzky March (1924). He died of alcoholism just before the outbreak of World War II.

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