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Joseph Roth

Austro-Hungarian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Moses Joseph Roth was an Austro-Hungarian 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", 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.

Editorial summary

“Joseph Roth” enters the record as austro-Hungarian novelist and journalist (1894–1939). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joseph, Roth and Austro-Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joseph, Roth and Austro-Hungarian.
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“Joseph Roth” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joseph, Roth and Austro-Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1932 and 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joseph Roth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.