num_pages: 144
description: A masterpiece of twentieth-century history, only recently rediscovered in Germany, appears for the first time in English. Every few decades, a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Elie Wiesel's Night or Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. In 1927, however, before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. At the time a correspondent in Berlin, emotionally ravaged by the whirlwind events of Weimar Germany, Roth examined the concept of Jewish identity and questioned what lay in store for it. Whether writing of the schism between Eastern and Western Jews, warning of the false comforts of assimilation, or eerily foreseeing the horrors posed by Nazism, The Wandering Jews remains as unforgettably vital today as it was when first published.
language: English
title: The Wandering Jews
titlecomplete: The Wandering Jews
genres: European History, German Literature, Nonfiction, Jewish, Judaica, Essays, Classics, 20th Century, Judaism, History
ratings_count: 599
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc