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This first English translation of nonfiction by journalist-novelist Roth (d. 1939) incisively portrays pre-World War II European Jewish experience. Includes the 1937 preface for the never published German second edition of Juden auf Wanderschaft (c.1926), comment by Elie Wiesel, and several period photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Joseph Roth is the author of such classics as The Radetzky March and The Emperor's Tomb. He died in Paris in 1939. Translator Michael Hofmann won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Roth's The Tale of the 1002nd Night.
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[A] book of impassioned reportage and polemic...it is impossible not to feel a sympathetic wonder.
In our time, Roth (1894-1939) is revered for his novels, including The Tale of the 1002nd Night, newly translated into English. But Roth was also an esteemed German journalist, keenly attuned to the plight of Eastern European Jews. Here, in this trenchant portrait of a people in jeopardy written in 1927 and recently rediscovered, he contrasts the "authentic and uncontaminated" Eastern Jews with their assimilated Western Jewish counterparts, who are so steeped in Germany's xenophobic bourgeois society they exude their own brand of anti-Semitism. A Jew and a wanderer, Roth lovingly describes the vitality of shtetl life, chronicling both the somberness of Yom Kippur and the ecstasy of "dancing as a form of worship, an orgy of prayer," then sharply contrasts this freedom of religious expression with the oppressiveness of ghetto life in Vienna and Berlin, and the struggles of Soviet Jews. Roth meant to rankle readers, and now, decades later, his empathic and prescient tribute to his Eastern European brethren offers some painful answers to the eternal Holocaust question: how could it have happened? Donna Seaman
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