The Wandering Jews

Roth, Joseph

ISBN 10: 039332270X / ISBN 13: 9780393322705

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wandering Jews
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039332270X
• ISBN 13: 9780393322705
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The classic portrait of a vanished people.

Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these stunning dispatches written when Roth was a correspondent in Berlin during the whirlwind period of Weimar Germany, he warned of the false comforts of Jewish assimilation, laid bare the schism between Eastern and Western Jews, and at times prophesied the horrors posed by Nazism. The Wandering Jews remains as vital today as when it was first published. "[A] book of impassioned reportage and polemic...it is impossible not to feel a sympathetic wonder."―Michael Andre Bernstein, The New Republic "In these disturbing yet strikingly illuminating pages, the truth of Jewish destiny from long ago vibrates and sings..."―Elie Wiesel "No other writer...has come so close to achieving the wholeness that Lukacs cites as our impossible aim."―Nadine Gordimer "What a marvelous writer! Read him now. You can thank me later."―Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"[C]aptures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization."―Cynthia Ozick, author of Quarrel and Quandary  "[A] writer well worth adding to the short list of giants such as Thomas Mann, Elie Wiesel, and Primo Levi."―Hadassah Magazine, Sanford Pinsker

About the Authors

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.

The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. His translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.