Hiob

Life brings harsh blows of fate to the Torah teacher Mendel Singer in his shtetl. Even after he emigrates to New York with his family, he is accompanied by unbearable suffering and loss. Mendel loses all hope and his faith in God. Only a miracle can help him now. "Job," published in 1930, was Joseph Roth's first major success as an author and, along with "Radetzky March," released a year later, represents the artistic pinnacle of his work. His "novel of a simple man" not only tells an exemplary fate but also serves as a monument to the destroyed culture of the East European Jewish shtetl. – Includes a compact biography of the author.