David Herman
Joseph Roth: His Life and Works
Summary
Moses Joseph Roth (1894–1939) 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, his novel of Jewish life Job, and his seminal essay “Juden auf Wanderschaft”, a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
David Herman
David Herman is a freelance writer based in London. Over the past 20 years he has written almost a thousand articles, essays, and reviews on Jewish history and literature for publications including the Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Quarterly, Jewish Renaissance, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Prospect. He has taught courses on Jewish culture for the London Jewish Cultural Centre and JW3. He is a regular contributor to Jewish Book Week, the Association of Jewish Refugees, and the Insiders/Outsiders Festival on the contribution of Jewish refugees to British culture.
Well, it’s a very good question, because I think they’ve always been in print in German, but some of them, just a few, were translated before the war, and then in the 1940s and ‘50s, but only a few, and not usually by mainstream publishers.
And no, I haven’t, because I’m not … I don’t speak German, nor read or write in German. There are one or two biographies of Roth but I think Dennis Marks’ short book is actually the best of of all.