Hiob

Life deals the Torah teacher Mendel Singer hard blows in his shtetl. Even after he emigrates to New York with his family, unbearable suffering and loss accompany him. Mendel loses all hope and his faith in God. Only a miracle can help him.
"Job," published in 1930, was Joseph Roth's first resounding success as an author - and, together with "Radetzky March," published a year later, also represents the artistic high point of his creative work. His "novel of a simple man" not only tells an exemplary fate, but is at the same time a monument to the destroyed culture of the eastern Jewish shtetl. - With a compact biography of the author.