The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works

by Rares Piloiu

The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction for the first time in the context of a generational interest in religious redemption among the Jewish intellectuals of Central Europe. In it, Piloiu argues that Roth's challenging, often contradictory and ambivalent literary output is the result of an attempt to recast moral,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557538301
• ISBN13: 9781557538307
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"