Wandering Jews

In 1926, Joseph Roth wrote a book that sounds remarkably fresh today.

Problems shtetl Jews who left no time in Western Europe and America have long been common problems of millions of immigrants - Jews and Gentiles. And the attitude of Western Europeans to eastern neighbors had not changed.

In 1926, Roth, a native of Galicia, the assimilated Jew, a homeless inhabitant of Vienna, Berlin, Paris hotels, thirty-two years. He lives on the royalties from newspaper articles and wrote quickly, loves to work in a cafe, a discordant buzz of some drunken company, draining glass after glass, glass after glass, which contains the necessary work for the liquid - wine or beer, brandy or schnapps and sometimes all mixed together. Often next to him can be seen through the eyes of a beautiful woman with a gazelle, the Viennese Jew Frederic ("Fridley") Reyhler, his young wife. Mouth off his journalistic and writing career. From an obscure Viennese reporter for several years he has managed to become a permanent member of the respectable "Frankfurter Zeitung", so - enter the cohort of the most prominent writers and journalists in Germany, to his credit a lot of stories and humorous anecdotes, as well as the first published novels.

"The author entertains a naive hope that he can find readers, to whom he did not have to defend the Jews of European East - Roth writes in the preface - the readers, who tend to head to the suffering, the greatness of the human soul, and before the mud, eternal companion grief "

 Now our readers have the opportunity to meet the expectations of classics - "The road of Jewish wandering" has finally come to Russia.