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Joseph Roth

1894 - 1939

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Moses Joseph Roth (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Roth has received more than 518,119 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Joseph Roth is the 406th most popular writer (down from 367th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 42nd 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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  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Radetzkymarsch
1932
Die Kapuzinergruft
1938
Werke
1956
Tarabas
Revolutionaries
A novel centering on the tragic destiny of Nicholas Tarabas, as he battles his way through war, superstition and destiny
1934
Das falsche Gewicht
1937
Beichte eines Mörders
1936

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Roth ranks 406 out of 7,302. Before him are Pietro Aretino, Ismail Kadare, Ágota Kristóf, Edmondo De Amicis, Henning Mankell, and Henry James. After him are Dan Brown, René Guénon, Michel Houellebecq, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Alfred de Musset, and Qu Yuan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Joseph Roth ranks 16. Before him are Boris III of Bulgaria, Moshe Sharett, Jean Renoir, Norbert Wiener, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, and Fritz Sauckel. After him are Harold Macmillan, Gala Dalí, Isaac Babel, Dietrich von Choltitz, Kiichiro Toyoda, and Alfred Kinsey. 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 Eugen Bleuler, W. B. Yeats, James Naismith, Werner von Fritsch, Philipp Scheidemann, and Anton Makarenko.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 50 out of 1,365. Before him are Nestor Makhno (1888), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), George Gamow (1904), Anne of Kiev (1025), and Symon Petliura (1879). After him are Sholem Aleichem (1859), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), and Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 9. Before him are Taras Shevchenko (1814), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836). After him are Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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