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Summary: | On the 70th anniversary of Joseph Roth's death, this volume examines the current relevance of his work. His works and opinions were regarded as being overly oriented towards the past; his leanings towards the monarchy were mocked, his call to supranational thinking interpreted as a simple response to contemporary events. He was read chiefly as the narrator of the vanished Habsburg empire or of the vanished Eastern European Jewry. Today, at a time that Europe is uniting, one gains a different picture: it no longer seems strange that he regarded ideological commitments as an excessively tight co.
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Item Description: | Papers presented at an international conference held May 25-27, 2009. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 357 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783110265057 3110265052 |