Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth , was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and for his novel of Jewish life, Job as well as the seminal essay 'Juden auf Wanderschaft' , a fragmented account about the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in the author. Roth... committed suicide through alcohol abuse in 1939. Born to a Jewish family, Roth grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East-Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then Austro-Hungarian empire. Jewish culture played an important role in the life of the town, which had one of the biggest Jewish populations in Europe.
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| Birthdate: | September 2, 1894 |
| Birthplace: | Brody |
| Date of death: | May 27, 1939 |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism, Judaism |
| Also known as: | Moses Joseph Roth |