词条 | The Wandering Jews |
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AttitudesJoseph Roth wrote the book for, "readers with respect for pain, for human greatness, and for the squalor that everywhere accompanies misery; Western Europeans who are not merely proud of their clean mattresses." The book displays his "lifelong sympathies with simple people, the dispossessed guests on this earth and his antipathy to a selfish, materialistic, and increasingly homogeneous bourgeoisie." [8] Roth is warm to his subjects, with "the exception of the middle-class, assimilated, denying Jews in the West." Jews in Germany and France, believing themselves to be assimilated, tended to look down on the newcomers to the West. And, "Roth sensed that the countries of Europe, stumbling out of one war and into another, floored by inflation, willing victims of atrocious right-wing propaganda and nationalist rhetoric would not be hospitable to the Jews who were being turned out of the East."[9] Born in Galicia, a Central European province of the Habsburg Empire, Roth witnessed the end of this Empire yet continued to call it his only homeland. He regarded it as "something that contained multitudes, something not exclusive", and, according to his English translator Michael Hoffman, the Jews represented "human beings in their least packaged form" - "the most anomalous, individual of peoples", fissured by history and geography. Roth believed in "Judaism, in the sense of a somewhat separate presence of Jews within and throughout and inspiriting Europe." Communism he believed would eliminate anti-semitism and Jewish identity alike. He never went to Palestine, but he objected to the creation of a nation state there for the Jews. "The young halutz is also the disseminator of a culture. He is as much a European as he is a Jew". In a Preface to the 1937 edition Roth was only able to hope for " conditions for Jews getting steadily and bearably worse. What happened instead was the Holocaust." [10] References1. ^ {{Joseph Roth}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wandering Jews}}2. ^Michael Hoffman, The Wandering Jews, Preface p.xiv, 2001 3. ^Michael Hofmann, The Wandering Jews, Preface p.xiv Granta 2001 {{ISBN|1-86207-392-9}} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Mars-Jones|first=Adam|title=Review: The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/24/fiction.reviews|accessdate=26 November 2011|newspaper=The Observer|date=23 December 2000}} 5. ^{{cite news|last=Maccoby|first=Hyam|title=The lost tribes of Europe|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-907293-the-lost-tribes-of-europe.do|accessdate=26 November 2011|newspaper=The Evening Standard|date=8 January 2001}} 6. ^{{cite news|last=Evans|first=Julian|title=Melodies of melancholy. Joseph Roth, master elegist of the Habsburg empire, has been rescued from undeserved neglect. Julian Evans on the lonely wanderer who anticipated the coming Nazi storm.|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200102120046|accessdate=26 November 2011|newspaper=New Statesman|date=12 February 2001}} 7. ^{{cite news|last=Eder|first=Richard|title=Unsafe Haven|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/reviews/001224.24ederlt.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=joseph%20roth%20%22wandering%20jews%22&st=cse|accessdate=26 November 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 December 2000}} 8. ^Hoffman, p.xiv 9. ^Hoffman p.xv 10. ^Translators preface, p.xvii, The Wandering Jews, Granta 2001 4 : 1927 books|Austrian books|Works by Joseph Roth|Works about the interwar period |
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