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Joseph Roth

1894 - 1939

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Moses Joseph Roth (Austrian German: [roːt]; 2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English as The Wandering Jews), a fragmented account of 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 Roth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Roth is the 395th most popular writer (up from 406th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 50th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Joseph Roth was a German novelist who is most famous for his novel "The Radetzky March."

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Among writers, Joseph Roth ranks 395 out of 7,302. Before him are Cornelius Nepos, Elena Ferrante, Sylvia Plath, Paul Éluard, Octavio Paz, and Enheduanna. After him are Christopher Marlowe, Giosuè Carducci, Harry Martinson, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Frank Herbert, and William Wordsworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Joseph Roth ranks 14. Before him are Georges Lemaître, Boris III of Bulgaria, Jean Renoir, Maximilian Kolbe, John Ford, and Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. After him are Norbert Wiener, Fritz Sauckel, Moshe Sharett, Kim Hyong-jik, Isaac Babel, and Gala Dalí. Among people deceased in 1939, Joseph Roth ranks 6. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Pope Pius XI, Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, and Nadezhda Krupskaya. After him are W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, S. P. L. Sørensen, Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, and Philipp Scheidemann.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 47 out of 1,365. Before him are Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Symon Petliura (1879), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Igor Sikorsky (1889), and George Gamow (1904). After him are Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), and Sergei Korolev (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 9. Before him are Taras Shevchenko (1814), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836). After him are Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), and Vasily Grossman (1905).

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