Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Neue sachlichkeit

  • Joseph Roth, a visionary poet and victim of European history

    Frank Wollheim Sweden   Joseph and Friedl in Berlin, 1927. From Wilhelm von Sternberg. Joseph Roth, Kiepenheuer & Wirtsch, 2009. Joseph Roth was born on 2 September 1894 in Brody, then a Galician town in the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, bordering Russia. His parents married in 1892 and like two thirds of the 20,000 inhabitants were Hassidic…