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Article: The Wandering Jews.(Review) (book review)
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The Wandering Jews W.W. Norton 146 pages Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann
IN THE FORWARD to this monumental book, first published in Germany in 1927, the Austrian writer Joseph Roth remarks, "The author has the fond hope that there may still be readers from whom the Eastern Jews do not require protection.... Readers with respect for pain, for human greatness and for the squalor that everywhere accompanies misery."
Roth wrote these words at a time when the Eastern Jews were largely perceived as a threat and nuisance, as aimless wanderers without a proper home. A prolific writer with more than a dozen novels to his credit, among them his ...