Creator Bio
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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Wailing Wall
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…
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The Honors Student
No, Anton Wanzl was not good. He lacked love, he lacked heart. He did only what he thought was clever and sensible. He gave no love and asked for none. He never needed any affection, any tenderness…