Joseph Roth - Joseph Roth - A Life in Letters

morality of, xiv, 201

Moses as given name of, 3–4, 7, 77, 81

Muniu “Mu” as childhood nickname of, 3, 7–9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 28, 145, 150

novellas of, 60, 186, 244, 328, 344, 377, 378

novels of, xi, xii, xiii, 4, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 36–37, 85, 90, 92–93, 94, 95, 99–100, 101, 115–16, 124, 127–28, 132, 138, 186, 196, 221, 377

Old World courtesies of, xiv, xv, 7, 154, 156

only-child status of, 3

peripatetic working life of, xii, xv, 22, 48, 70, 83–92, 99, 159, 168, 171, 174, 310

personal documents of, 124

physical appearance of, 232–33

poetry of, 4, 10–11, 14, 39

press reports on, 84, 85

pride and shame of, 3

as prisoner of war, 221, 310

professed Catholicism of, 85, 88, 266, 411–12

as “red Roth,” xv

responsiveness to public events of, 137

reviews of works by, 105, 118, 217, 219, 221, 314

rhetorical power of, 27

self-confidence of, 154

self-description of, 85, 88, 138, 150–54, 211–12, 411–12

short stories of, xiii, 11, 16, 23, 500

snobbery of, 154

socialism of, 26

very late writing of, 9, 196, 236

Roth, Miriam (mother), xi, 3, 6, 150–51, 220, 309

Roth, Nahum (father), xi, 34, 151, 220, 309, 310

Rotter, Alfred and Fritz, 251

Rouen, 72–73

Rouen Cathedral, 73

Rowohlt, Ernst, 71, 72

Rowohlt publishing house, 72, 160

royalism, 207

Ruhr Valley, 71, 104, 158

Ruppel, Dr., 154–55

Russia, xii, 4, 22, 35, 56, 79, 82–92, 102–3, 129, 130, 137, 155, 157, 166, 250, 289, 372, 379–80

censorship in, 83, 85, 204

culture and religion of, 82, 86, 380

JR in, 83–92

“Russia Goes to America” (Roth), 380

Russian language, 42, 91, 380

Russian Revolution, 82, 337

Saarbrückener Zeitung, 111

Saarland, 103, 104, 112, 128

Sabatier, Mr., 425, 426, 435

Sad Affair, A (Koeppen), 407

Saenger, Samuel, 303, 307, 308

St. Cloud, 72

St. Denis Cathedral, 72

Salammbô, 386

Salomon, Gottfried, 81

Salt of the Earth (Wittlin), 13

Salzburg, 116, 141, 143–47, 159, 230, 324, 331–32, 337–38, 491–92

Sammlung, Die, 255, 276, 279, 295, 298, 299, 300, 302, 329, 330, 372, 501

Sarnetzki, Detmar, 156, 157

Schacherl, Dr., 145–46, 157, 163

Schaubühne, 205

Schenk, Baroness von, see Szajnocha, Helena von

Scheyer, Dr., 158

Scheyer Moritz, 170

Schickele, René, xiii, xv, 276, 294–95, 384, 408, 441, 443, 444

letters of JR to, 141–43, 198, 295–97, 308, 371–72, 387–88, 390, 407–8

letter to JR from, 302–7

Schiller, Friedrich von, 220

Schleicher, Kurt von, 304, 307

Schloss, Sibylle, 407

Schmiede, Die, 23, 28–29, 65, 96, 166

Schneider, Rudolf, 49

Schoenberner, Franz, letter of JR to, 286

Schönfeld, Herr, 26

Schotthöfer, Fritz, 56, 57, 74, 79, 149

Schottländer, Mr., 346

Schubert, Franz, 49

Schuschnigg, Kurt von, xiv, 383–84

Schutzbund, 331, 332

Schutzstaffel (SS), 307

Schwabendorf, see Brody

Schwannecke’s literary café, 71

Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 294, 295

Schwarzschild, Leopold, 281, 282, 331

Schweigsame Frau, Die (Strauss), 224, 370, 371

Second International, 48, 50

Seelig, Carl, letters of JR to, 269–70, 285, 317, 322–23, 325, 341, 350, 366, 375, 382, 385–86, 388–89

Seine River, 38

Sergeant Grisha (A. Zweig), 205

Sèvres, 72

Sèvres-Ville d’Avray, 72

S. Fischer Verlag, 17, 37, 109, 110, 111, 112, 117, 118, 127–28, 160, 195, 247, 259, 283, 303

Shakespeare, William, 194, 217, 218, 437

Shanghai, xv, 23, 513

shtetls, 14

Siberia, 124, 130, 131, 155, 156

Sieburg, Friedrich, 34, 63, 65, 74, 75, 77–79, 93, 112, 194, 237, 298–99

Silent Prophet, The (Roth), 37, 127, 128, 138, 186

Simon, Heinrich, 47, 48, 55–56, 59, 64, 66, 67, 88, 90, 93, 98, 100, 148, 165–66, 200, 205, 429

Skoglund Verlag, 477

Skubl, Michael, 523

Snick, Els, Dr. 179

Sochaczewer, Hans, 201

Social Democratic Party, 48, 50, 56, 57, 63, 311, 313, 383, 415

socialism, 26, 47–48, 279, 383, 414

Socialist Democratic Congress, 47–48, 50

Song of Bernadette, The (Werfel), 242

Sonnemann, Leopold, 42, 43, 48

Sorbonne, 309

Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 123

Sourire, Le, 73, 75

Southern California, University of, 96

Soviet Union, xii, 82–93, 277

show trials in, 413, 444

Spain, 74, 76, 79, 174

Spanish Civil War, 349

Spiegel, Der, 195

SPO, 332

Sport und Bild (Zarek), 209–10

Städel museum, 189, 190

Stahl, Dr., 42, 50, 51, 55, 76

Stalin, Joseph, 413, 510

Starhemberg, Ernst von, 254, 255

Stark, Oskar, 40, 41

“Stationmaster Fallmerayer” (Roth), 23, 224, 244, 259

Steiner, Erna, 329

Steinhof sanatorium, 374–75

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 121

Steppenwolf (Hesse), 326

Sternberg, 14

Sternburg, Wilhelm von, 179

Sternheim, Carl, 438

Sternheim, Thea, 438, 451

Stols, Mr., 470–71

Strasbourg, 103, 167–68, 320

Strauss, Richard, 224, 370–71, 397, 400, 402–3, 404

“Strawberries” (Roth), 420, 425

Streicher, Julius, 306, 307, 417, 520

Stresemann, Gustav, 71

Stürgkh, Count Friedrich, 48, 50

Stürmer, Der, 307

Swing, The (Kolb), 327, 378–79

Switzerland, xiii, 65, 221, 226, 249, 269, 280–81, 294, 388, 423, 526

Szajnocha, Helena von, 14, 16, 17, 25, 27, 28, 124, 144–45, 183

JR influenced by, 15

Szvaby, 309, 310

Tagebuch, Das, 175, 331

Tal, Ernst P., 121, 129, 160, 357, 508–9

Tale of the 1002nd Night, The (Roth), 493, 502, 504, 525

Talmud, 246, 451

Tarabas, a Guest on This Earth (Roth), 257, 288, 301, 314, 317, 318, 325, 341, 346, 366, 476

Tardieu, Mrs., 215–16

Tartarins, 131, 132

Taunus, 194

Tbilisi, 84

Temps, Le, 240, 285–86, 378

Thérive, André, 240, 241, 326–27

Thompson, Dorothy, 189, 269, 398, 531

Ticino, 119, 340

Toller, Ernst, 85, 86–87, 205

letters to JR from, 96

suicide of, 87, 506

Tolstoy, Leo, 121, 130, 380, 438

Torczyner, Pume, 25

Toscanini, Arturo, 48, 368, 371, 376, 512, 514, 515

Trahison des Clercs (Benda), 114

Trebitsch-Lincoln, Ignaz, 334, 335

Tristan (Mann), 104

Triumph and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam (Zweig), 291, 293, 294, 332, 342, 355, 358, 364–65, 376, 378, 381, 473, 515

Triumph of Beauty, The (Roth), 196, 333, 336, 378

Trost des Volkes (Asch), 405–6

Trotsky, Leon, 138, 305

Tschuppik, Karl, 498, 499

Tucholsky, Kurt, 68, 148, 204, 205, 251, 279, 391

Turkestan-Siberian Railway, 155, 156

Tynan, Kenneth, xvii

typhoid epidemic of 1916, 152

Uhl, Willo, 49–50, 52

Ukraine, 84, 85

Ulitz, Arnold, 118, 119

Ullstein Verlag, 60, 76, 77, 80, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 103, 157

Under the Volcano (Lowry), xvii, 516–17

United States, 79, 82–83, 124, 150, 167, 174, 194, 195, 307, 376, 395

Urania Club, 490

U.S. News & World Report, 65

Vallentin, Antonina, 190, 286, 327–28, 334

Valois publishing house, 185

van Alfen, Philip, 450, 451, 453, 455

van de Meer, Mr., 462

Vatican, 430

Vaugoin, Karl, 254, 255

Vehmic murder, 442

Venice in Vienna, 5, 12, 13

Verband der Bücherfreunde, 111