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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 482,378 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Joseph Roth is the 368th most popular writer (up from 370th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 38th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Roth ranks 368 out of 5,755. Before him are Anne Brontë, Henri Charrière, Cyrano de Bergerac, William Wordsworth, Romain Gary, and Margaret Atwood. After him are Henry James, Arthur de Gobineau, Ken Follett, Kenzaburō Ōe, Théophile Gautier, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Joseph Roth ranks 14. Before him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Boris III of Bulgaria, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Norbert Wiener, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. After him are Harold Macmillan, Fritz Sauckel, Dietrich von Choltitz, Gala Dalí, Benjamin Graham, and Alfred Kinsey. Among people deceased in 1939, Joseph Roth ranks 7. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Pope Pius XI, Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, James Naismith, and Nadezhda Krupskaya. After him are W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, Anton Makarenko, and Philipp Scheidemann.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 42 out of 1,083. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), and Igor Sikorsky (1889). After him are Petro Poroshenko (1965), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Sholem Aleichem (1859), George Gamow (1904), Symon Petliura (1879), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Joseph Roth ranks 8. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Anna Akhmatova (1889), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836). After him are Sholem Aleichem (1859), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), and Irène Némirovsky (1903).

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