Joseph Roth - Joseph Roth - A Life in Letters

Verdun, 74

Versailles, 72, 195

Vienna, xii, 4, 5, 9–17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 47, 56, 92, 94, 103–5, 121–26, 147, 151, 153, 200, 221

Vienna, University of, 4, 11, 221, 310

Vienna Journal, 437

Viénot, Jean, 238, 239

Viertel, Berthold, 463

Viking Press, 189, 342, 345–47, 362

Vilnius, 120, 488, 489

Vischer, Friedrich Theodor, 12, 13

Volga River, 83

Volhynia, 150

Völkischer Beobachter, 209, 210, 382

Voltaire, 250, 511

“Vom armen BB” (Brecht), 21

Vossische Zeitung, 86, 95, 96, 103, 104, 172, 211

Voyage au Congo (Gide), 115

Vriendt kehrt heim, De (Zweig), 224

Walser, Robert, 270

Walter, Bruno, 404, 405

Wanda (Hauptmann), 128

Wandering Jews, The (Roth), xii, 21, 28, 59, 60, 100, 101, 186

Warsaw, 120, 379, 489

Washington, D.C., 48

Wasserbäck, Erwin, 32, 485

letter of JR to, 330–31

Wassermann, Jacob, 264, 265, 277, 283, 498, 499

Weber, Fräulein, 90, 99

Weekly Review, 344

Weights and Measures (Roth), 196, 420, 467, 470, 481, 487, 497

translation of, 498

Weiskopf, Mr., 336

Weiss, Ernst, 136, 137, 442, 444, 500, 513

Weiss, Leopold, 88, 89

Weissen Blätter, Die, 142, 305

Weizmann, Chaim, 414–15, 416

Welt, 102

Weltbühne, Die, 148, 149, 204, 205, 257, 391, 412

Wendel, Hermann, 74

Werfel, Franz, 242, 277, 509, 510

What I Saw (Roth), 71, 119

“White Cities, The” (Roth), 33–34, 44, 46, 48, 60, 186

Widow Bosca, The (Schickele), 302, 306–7, 308

Wiener Zeitung, 383

Wiesner, Mr. von, 268, 273

Wileder, Milan, 169

Wilhelm II, King of Prussia, 249

William Heinemann Ltd., 342, 345, 348–49, 352, 354, 356–57, 359, 428–29

Winkler, Franz, 254, 255

Winternitz-Zweig, Friderike Maria von, 129–30, 156, 158, 170, 208, 230, 293, 301, 324, 332, 375, 451, 453, 491, 527, 531

daughters of, 490

letters from JR to, 482, 489–90

letter to JR from, 321

separation of Zweig and, 467, 483, 484

Witkowitz, 152

Wittlin, Jozef, 15, 27, 28

Polish translation of JR’s novels by, 13

works of, 13

Wolfe, Mr., 198

Wolff, Fritz, 427, 428, 440, 441, 459

Wolff, Helen, 94

Wolff, Kurt, 93, 94

Wolff, Theodor, 157, 158

Wolf in der Hurde, Der (Schickele), 198

women, JR on, 10, 11, 12, 13, 44, 45, 48, 51, 61, 151, 152–53

World Congress of Writers, 530–31

World of Yesterday, The (Zweig), 101

World’s Fair (Paris), 517

World War I, 13, 44, 57, 60, 84, 153, 207, 210, 220–21, 267, 292, 299, 310, 495

World War II, 242, 259, 371

Wozzeck (Berg), 438

Wülner, Ludwig, 12

“Younger Brother, The,” see Right and Left (Roth)

Yugoslavia, 454, 456

Italian conflict with, 94

Zarek, Otto, 185, 187, 189, 209–10, 211

Zinoviev, Grigory, 413

Zionism, 414–17, 431

Zipper and His Father (Roth), 36, 100, 106, 107, 110, 116, 186, 262

Zola, Émile, 279

Zuckmayer, Carl, 448, 449

Zurich, 128, 252, 257, 269, 291, 381

Peppermill cabaret in, 295, 406, 407

Zurich, University of, 160

Zurick Stadtbibliothek, 375

Zwangsschriftstellergesetz, 283, 284

Zweig, Arnold, 155, 156, 204, 205, 223–24, 246, 251, 257, 280, 287, 288, 424

Zweig, Stefan, 100–101, 145, 177, 205

autograph collection of, 128

investigation of, 321–22

as JR’s patron, xiii, xv, 3, 116, 140–41, 231–32, 471, 474

JR’s relationship with, 229–32, 282, 313, 321–22, 349–52, 393–94, 403, 460–62, 469, 475–76, 485, 491–92, 505–6, 513–15, 521–22, 529

JR’s response to criticism of, 369–71

letters of JR to, 22, 33, 100, 115–16, 120–21, 127–30, 132–33, 138–41, 143–44, 147, 154–58, 161–66, 168–74, 179–87, 189–93, 196–97, 203–5, 208–12, 220, 223–25, 237, 244–65, 267–69, 271, 273–74, 277–82, 285–94, 299–302, 309–15, 317–18, 331–32, 337–40, 342–47, 355–56, 358–66, 368–69, 373–78, 386–87, 390–96, 400, 401, 403–4, 411–39, 441–47, 450–56, 458–59, 461–62, 472–76, 478, 481–84, 491–92, 494–96, 498–513, 518–21, 525–27

letters to JR from, 96, 229, 272–73, 276, 283–85, 319–22, 324, 342, 349–50, 352–55, 356–58, 362, 364, 367–68, 381–82, 397, 401–2, 404–5, 439–41, 442–43, 448–50, 453–54, 457, 460–61, 463–64, 470–71, 476–77, 479, 483, 513–17, 519–22, 524–25, 529

pacifism and humanism of, 250

suicide of second wife and, 479

works of, 140, 141, 158, 174, 180, 183, 224, 293, 294, 309, 311–13, 322, 324

AT THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE

Since its founding in 1955, the Leo Baeck Institute (www.lbi.org) in New York has become the premier research library and archive devoted exclusively to documenting the history of German-speaking Jewry. Its role in preserving the literary legacy of Joseph Roth is particularly noteworthy and not surprising, since one of the first directors of LBI was Fred Grubel, a cousin of Joseph Roth. It was through this connection that LBI archives became the repository for a large number of his manuscripts and notes, including fragments of his novels from the 1920s and 1930s:

The manuscripts Der blinde Spiegel (The Blind Mirror), Büste des Kaisers (The Bust of the Emperor), the historical essay Clemenceau (Clemenceau), Die Hundert Tage (The Ballad of the Hundred Days), and an unfinished novel called Trotzki Roman , published after the Second World War as Der stumme Prophet (The Silent Prophet), are complete or close to completeness. The manuscript Die Hundert Tage (The Ballad of the Hundred Days) contains 220 pages in Joseph Roth’s own handwriting and 898 pages of the typewritten manuscript with his own corrections. The manuscript under the title Trotzki Roman , alternatively known also as Roman eines jungen Revolutionärs , can also be found here.

In addition, there are substantial portions of other works, such as Clemenceau, Legende von Trinker Andreas / Legende vom heiligen Trinker , and Kapuzinergruft. These texts are partly in Joseph Roth’s handwriting, partly carbon copies of his own handwriting, and partly typewritten with his own corrections.

Aside from the manuscripts of novels and longer works, there are articles, essays, and shorter pieces written between 1915 and the end of his life in 1939, newspaper articles published between 1926 and 1939, and a number of critical reviews of his works. The LBI Roth collections also contain correspondence and documents concerning his estate and rights to his works (compiled by his cousin Fred Grubel) as well as materials regarding scholarly works about Joseph Roth, academic conferences, and exhibits.

The photographs for Joseph Roth have all been provided from the Leo Baeck Institute archives.

Michael Hofmann, the son of the German novelist Gert Hofmann, was born in 1957 in Freiburg. At the age of four he moved to England, where he has lived off and on ever since. After studying English at Cambridge and comparative literature on his own, he moved to London in 1983. He has published poems and reviews widely in England and in the United States, where he now teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

In addition to six books of poems (a Selected Poems appeared with Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2009), he has edited the anthology Twentieth-Century German Poetry , translated a selection of the leading contemporary German poet Durs Grünbein called Ashes for Breakfast , and prepared a volume of Gottfried Benn’s poems called Impromptus (all FSG and Faber & Faber); and brought out a selected poems of Günter Eich, called Angina Days (Princeton University Press). A selection of Hofmann’s critical pieces was published by Faber as Behind the Lines . Another, with the provisional title Critical Book , is on the way, as is a new book of poems entitled One Lark, One Horse .