Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

8 Uhr Blatt, 79

Adler, Friedrich, 48, 50

Adler, Viktor, 48

Aesthetics, or the Science of Beauty (Vischer), 12, 13

Aix, 47

Albania, xii, 5, 15, 22, 56, 94, 456

Albatross Press, 329, 357

Albin Michel, 435

Alcazar, 193

Alexander, Kurt, 260, 261–63, 357

Alexander the Great, 43, 131

Allert de Lange, 166, 255, 315, 328, 339, 342, 350, 352, 357, 363, 373–74, 376–77, 422–24, 427–28, 435, 436, 443, 451, 454–55, 490

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 318

Altmann, Lotte, 332, 479

Americanism, 132, 142

American PEN Club, 530

Amok (Zweig), 180

Amsterdam, xii, xiii, 166, 227, 254, 286, 290, 326, 392, 422–23

Andreas (Hofmannsthal), 236

Animals in Chains (Weiss), 136

Anschluss, xiv, 56, 207, 268, 311, 520, 523

Antibes, 175, 177–82

Antichrist, The (Roth), 308, 315–18, 323, 326–27, 337, 339, 341, 345, 348, 350, 356–57, 359–62, 365–67, 373, 375–77, 384, 424, 454

foreign editions of, 394–95

sales of, 382

translations of, 385, 394–95, 409–10

anti-Semitism, 63, 130, 223–24, 254, 285–86, 306, 371, 396, 399, 415, 508–9

“April” (Roth), 23, 60, 154, 186

Ararat, Mount, 88

Arbeiter Zeitung (AZ), 221, 276, 278, 281, 287, 288

Arlésienne, L’ (Bizet), 51–52

Asch, Schalom, 277–78, 376, 384, 405–6

Asnières, 72

Astrakan, 83

“At Schwannecke’s” (Roth), 71

Auden, W. H., 295, 364

Aufbau, Der, 80

Auguste (porter), 447

Austria, xiv, xv, 26, 28, 56, 105, 207, 252, 267, 273, 412, 520, 522–23

unemployment and inflation in, 4

uprising of Social Democrats in, 313

see also Anschluss

Austrian army:

Fourth Regiment of, 494, 517

JR’s service in, xi, xv, 4, 9, 13, 14, 56, 153, 220–21, 252, 254, 267, 310, 494

21st Jaegers of, 153, 221

24th Land Reserve of, 221

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 3, 34, 221, 230, 263, 361

“Auto-da-Fé of the Mind” (Roth), 119

“Ave Maria,” 16

Avignon, 44–45

Bach, Davidl, 287

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 16

Baden, 9, 11, 13, 381, 421

Badische Zeitung (BZ), 41, 63, 79

Baedeker, 3

Bailby, Léon, 399

Baku, 84

Balearics, 170

Balkans, xii, 93–94

Balzac, Honoré de, 72, 218, 285, 379

Basler National Zeitung, 326, 428

Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, xv

Bauer, Ludwig, 266, 267

Bavaria, 56

Bavarian revolution of 1918, 87

Becher, Johannes R., 55, 57, 68

Beckmann, Max, 90, 92, 189–90

Beierle, Alfred, 25, 26, 293, 315, 404

Belgium, 257, 480, 482

Benda, Julien, 114, 115

Benedikt, Moritz, 383, 384

Benjamin, Walter, 35

Benn, Gottfried, 307, 430, 431

Berg, Alban, 438

Bergen-Belsen, 166

Berlin, xii, 4, 19, 21–29, 36, 37, 47, 55, 56, 60–61, 62, 64, 68, 72, 74, 93, 106, 204

Berliner Börsen Courier (BBC), 22, 26–27, 95, 96

Berliner Tageblatt (BT), 63, 65, 86, 91, 104, 126, 158, 172

Berlin stock market crash of 1927, 95, 96

Bernard Grasset publishing, 245, 426, 435, 436

Bernhard, Georg, 443, 445

Bertaux, Félix, xv, 136

letters of JR to, 101, 105–6, 109–10, 112–13, 117–20, 128–29, 130–32, 134–35, 199, 221–22, 234–39, 240–43, 290–91, 315–16, 384–85, 411, 522–23

Bertaux, Pierre, xv, 101, 110, 118, 128–29, 134, 199, 221, 237, 241, 243, 291

letters of JR to, 135–38

Betz, Maurice, 117, 118

Beware of Pity (Zweig), 293, 313, 514

Bible, 218, 434

Binding, Rudolph, 60

Bishop, Elizabeth, 33

Black Reichswehr, 79

Blei, Franz, 113, 118, 119, 120

Blind Mirror, The (Roth), 60, 186

Blue Angel, The (film), 385

Blum, Léon, 399

Blut und Boden literature, 367, 368

Bolshevism, 54, 82, 251, 306, 331, 380, 514

Bonaparte, Marie-Laetitia, 444, 445

Boniface, Saint, 511

Bonn, 65

Bonsels, Waldemar., 288

Brackwasser (Hauser), 109

Brandt, Willy, 96

Brazil, 33

Brecht, Bertolt, 21, 27, 68, 449

Brecht, Walter, 10, 11, 12, 13, 91–92, 207, 220

Breitbach, Joseph, 322, 336, 340

Brentano, Bernard von, xv, 176

JR as mentor of, 33, 35, 40–41, 42, 61–62, 65–67, 70, 75–76, 99

JR’s break with, 41, 137–38

letters of JR to, 33, 40–43, 46–48, 57–72, 75–76, 85–86, 89, 90, 96–97, 99, 102–3

Brentano, Clemens von, 41, 61

Brentano, Heinrich von, 66, 67, 90

Breslau, 91–92

British Labour Party, 282

British Museum, 322

Brittany, 76

Broczyner, Eduard, 523, 524

Brod, Max, 93, 94

Brodsky, Joseph, 489

Brody, 3–4, 7–8, 10, 25, 173, 310, 523

Bronsen, David, xvi, 3n, 4, 26, 96, 207, 210, 231n, 233n, 310, 444

Brun, Mr., 245, 436, 501

Brüning, Heinrich, 304, 307

Brussels, 138, 478, 480–83, 502, 507–8, 511

Buchhändler Börsenblatt, 251, 276, 278

Budapest, 153, 405, 454

Burckhardt, Jacob, 164, 166

Burgtheater, 12, 15, 27

Buried Candelabrum, The (Zweig), 324, 464, 476

Burke, Mme, 180–81

“Burning Secret” (Zweig), 368

Bust of the Emperor, The (Roth), 196, 378

Byelorussia, 84

Caesar, Julius, 131

Calvin, John, 481

Calvinism, 473, 476–77, 481

Cameroon, 195

Candide (journal), 490, 491–93, 496, 499

Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, 121

Caspar Hauser (Wassermann), 265

Castellio gegen Calvin (Zweig), 324, 464, 467, 471, 472–74, 476–77, 515, 524

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 380

Catholic Illustrated (magazine), 473

Catholicism, 33, 39, 43–44, 66, 82–83, 178–80, 185, 207, 252, 254, 256, 391, 413–14, 482

JR’s profession of, 85, 88, 266, 411–12

Caucasus, 88, 91

Cenower, Leo, 526

censorship, 83, 85, 114, 204

Ce Soir, 523

Chamberlain, Neville, 361

Chess Novella (Zweig), 525

Child of All Nations (Keun), 489

Christiampoller, 6, 7

Christians, 5, 13, 56, 247, 296, 370, 381, 415, 417

Christian Science movement, 158, 164

Christian Socialist Party, 254, 255, 383

Christliche Ständestaat, 417, 418, 498, 499, 508, 509–10

City of Benares (ship), 517

Claassen, Eugen, 59, 60

Claassen and Goverts, 60

Claassen Verlag, 60

Claudel, Paul, 113

Collected Novellas (Zweig), 324

Collected Shorter Fiction (Roth), 420

Collected Stories (Roth), 60, 154, 224

Cologne, 71, 104, 115, 127

Columbus, Christopher, 164

Communism, 91, 170, 250, 277, 289, 300, 311, 330, 336, 380, 388, 413, 414, 496

Concordia, 156, 158

Confession of a Murderer (Roth), 196, 420, 424, 467, 471, 476, 477, 487

serial rights to, 490, 497

translation of, 490

Coral Seller, The (Roth), 329, 378

Corticelli, A., 262

Coty, Françoise, 215, 216

Coudenhove, Ida, 137

Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard Count, 137

Counter-Reformation, 99

“Couple of Days in Deauville, A” (Roth), 98

Cracow, 15, 27, 28, 131

Crane, Hart, 516

Csokor, Franz Theodor, 375, 402

Cure through the Spirit (Zweig), 183

Curtius, Ernst Robert, 134, 135

Czechoslovakia, 27, 454, 523

Dachau, 399

Daphne Herbst (Kolb), 112–13

Daudet, Alphonse, 366, 367

Daudet, Léon, 49

Deauville, 73, 98

Decisive Moments in History (Zweig), 487

de Gaulle, Charles, 44

De Gemeenschap press, xvi, 166, 489, 504

Degenfeld-Schonburg, Heinrich, Count, 527

Delacroix, Eugène, 160

de Lange, Gerard, 290–93, 301, 395, 404

death of, 419, 420, 451

de Marcos, Signora, 388

democracy, 50, 63, 82, 176

de Monzie, Anatole, 238, 239

de Sabata, Victor, 368

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ), 102, 103

Deutsches Volkstheater, 16

Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfen, 193, 194

Deux Magots, 295, 319

“Devil and Miss Gwendoline, The” (Roth), 335

Dewall, Max von, 63, 65

Diagne, Mr., 238

Diaries (Roth), 103

Diebold,Bernhard, 63, 65, 68, 90

Dietrich, Marlene, 489

Dietz press, 58, 60

Dix, Otto, 36

Döblin, Alfred, 68, 71, 118, 119, 276, 277, 305, 308, 436

dogs, 5, 13, 45

Dohrn, Klaus, 418, 497, 498, 528

Dollfuss, Engelbert, 254, 255, 273, 311, 313

Nazi murder of, 383–84

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 82, 380

Drei Dichter ihres Lebens (Zweig), 121

Drill, Robert, 114, 115, 149

du Gard, Roger Martin, 442, 443

DuMont, Alfred Neven, 157, 158

East Galicia, 14

Ebermayer, Erich, 289, 290

Eddy, Mary Baker, 157, 158, 174

editing, JR on, 70

Egypt, 131

Eher, Franz, 381, 382

Eher-Verlag, 381–82

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 330, 331

Ehrenstein, Albert, 68

letters of JR to, 224–25

Einstein, Albert, 398, 415, 416

Emperor’s Tomb, The (Roth), 4, 196, 525

England, 174, 331, 392, 395, 428

Englischer Hof, 94

Erasmus, Desiderius, 365, 444

Erbe am Rhein, Das (Schickele), 198

Erstes Erlebnis (Zweig), 368

Essay about the Jews (Hebel), 195

Essen, 70, 114, 127

ethical relativism, 297

European Parliamentary Union, 137

European Review, 106

Expressionism, 94

Fabian (Kästner), 240

Faktor, Emil, 26, 27

Falke, Konrad, 501

Fascism, 74–75, 79, 289, 496, 512

Faulhaber, Michael von, 416

Faust (Goethe), xvii, 6, 12, 123, 217

Faust (Gounod), 12

Fear (Zweig), 309, 311–13, 467

Feblowicz, Mr., 497

Feiler, Artur, 63, 65, 114

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 155, 156, 171, 257, 278, 287, 288, 424, 496

Feux croisés, 235

Fingal, Stefan, xi, 143

Fischer, Bermann, 109, 110, 118, 138, 173, 276, 278, 429, 430, 443–44, 445

Fischer, Ernst, 287, 288, 289

Fischer, Samuel, 110, 120, 303, 307, 361, 445

see also S. Fischer Verlag

Flake, Otto, 16, 17

Flaubert, Gustave, 54, 100, 182, 218

Fles, Berthold, 516, 519

Flight Without End (Roth), xii, 4, 23, 36, 68, 94, 101, 105, 106, 115–16, 120, 139, 186, 221, 222

Florence, 94

Fontainebleau, 319

Forst-Battaglia, Otto, 220–21

Fouché, Joseph, 365

“Fourth Italy, The” (Roth), 126

France, xv, 27

JR in, 22, 33–36, 38–43, 95–101, 249

lack of respect in, 51–52

Midi in, 33

Nazi occupation of, 3, 242, 299

patriotism and nationalism in, 38

South of, xii, 39, 42, 48

spring in, 72, 81

theater and opera in, 51–52

Frank, Bruno, 448, 449, 465, 466

Frankfurt, xii, 35, 36, 41, 49, 54, 56, 58, 62, 68, 70, 73–75, 98, 104, 114, 188–92

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 35, 40, 65

Frankfurter Generalanzeiger, 80, 96

Frankfurter Hof (hotel), 88

Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, 160

Frankfurter Zeitung (FZ), xii, 33–37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 57, 60, 62–65, 68, 86, 87, 91, 101, 111, 297, 379

closing of, 272

feuilleton section of, 119, 122, 148, 206, 221

financial problems of, 63, 70

JR’s break with, 36, 429

JR’s debut at, 22

JR’s request for leave from, 53–56

JR’s work for, 33, 37, 43, 44, 45–47, 70, 73–75, 77–78, 100, 148, 159, 161–62, 168, 172, 191, 193, 204, 209, 221, 229, 380, 414, 456

JR urged to stay on at, 74–75

letters of JR to, 82–83

masthead and design of, 57

pecking order at, xiv, 34–35

sense of exceptionalism at, 35–36

typeface of, 57

Franta Slin (Weiss), 136

Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 56, 108, 170

French army, African soldiers in, 71

French language, 15, 16, 38, 39, 44, 45, 50, 70, 105, 111, 197, 319, 333

French Socialist Party, 399

Freud, Sigmund, 101, 158, 162, 170, 172, 174, 466, 474

Frey, Alexander Moritz, 108, 109

Frischauer, Paul, 428, 431, 446

Fuchs, Martin, 268, 329, 479

Fuite sans fin, 139

Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 512

Galicia, xii, 3, 4

Gallimard, 117, 118, 139

Gambetta, Léon-Michel, 72

Gandhi, Mohandas K. “Mahatma,” 495

Gartenlaube, 277

Geck, Rudolf, 63, 65, 87, 90

Gegenwart, Die, 40, 65

Geisenheyner, Max, 62, 64, 90

Georg, Manfred, 79, 80

George, Stefan, 298–99, 301

Georgia, 33

Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer (Weiss), 137

German army, 384

German Hilfskommittee, 426–27

German language, 4, 10, 12, 21, 40, 47, 65, 80, 108, 118, 123, 152, 207, 226, 325, 333

German Nationalist People’s Party, 259

Germany, Democratic Republic of (East Germany), 27

Germany, Nazi, 27, 29, 34, 36–37, 57, 115, 156, 204, 229–30, 234, 237, 240, 251, 259, 272, 278–89, 380–81

anti-Semitic practices in, 285–86, 306, 415

burning of the Reichstag in, 242

civil liberties suspended in, 242

concentration camps in, 166, 267, 368, 381, 399

euthanasia practiced in, 26

Night of the Long Knives in, 307

partitioning of, 44

plight of Jewish authors in, 381–82, 459

Reich Chamber of Culture in, 284

Vehmic murders in, 442

see also Holocaust

Germany, Weimar, xii, xv, 5, 22, 47–48, 91

inflation in, 55, 67

JR’s disparagement of, 40, 45–46, 47, 55–56, 59–60, 61–62, 66, 67, 71, 117, 131–32, 188, 197, 207

nonpayment of reparations to France by, 67

political killings (Fememorde) in, 79, 80

Reichstag elections in, 170

Ruhrgebiet sector of, 66, 67, 73

secret associations in, 109

Gert, Valeska, 81

Gessler, Otto, 71, 79

Gestapo, 183

Gide, André, 113, 114–15, 218, 250, 443

Gidon, Blanche, 236, 240, 242

French translations of JR’s works by, xv, 3, 196, 226, 229, 234, 235, 243–44, 333, 409–10

JR’s papers rescued by, 196

letters of JR to, 196, 213–16, 226, 243–44, 270, 309–10, 316, 319, 325–26, 327, 332–36, 340–41, 344, 366–67, 385, 387, 389–90, 392, 394, 398–99, 400, 405–10, 413, 462, 471–72, 479–81, 484–93, 496–98, 504–5, 507, 524, 527, 529

Gidon, Ferdinand, 196, 270, 272, 316, 319, 325, 340–41, 405

illness and death of, 398, 399, 400

letter of JR to, 492–93

Giehse, Therese, 407

Ginster (Kracauer), 109

Ginzburg, Harold, 342

Glaeser, Ernst, 155, 156, 171, 176

Glückliche Menschen (Kesten), 177

Goebbels, Joseph, 251, 279, 284, 298–99, 300, 370, 442, 508, 509

Goering, Hermann, 249, 287

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, xvii, 6, 123, 200, 208, 217, 247, 250, 268, 280

Gollancz, Victor, 339, 340, 342–46, 348, 352–54, 356, 357, 359–61, 363

letter of JR to, 345

Gorki, Maxim, 130, 412

Gottfarstein, Joseph, xi, 450, 451

Goverts, Henry, 60

Goverts Verlag, 60

Grasset publishing house, 426, 435, 436, 496, 499

Grenoble, 99

Grossmann, Stefan, 330, 331, 498, 499

Grübel, Fred, 196

Grübel, Heinrich, 17

letters of JR to, 8

Grübel, Paula, 6–7, 231

Holocaust murder of, 8

JR manuscripts saved by, 3

letters of Friedl Roth to, 25, 27

letters of JR to, 4, 7–17, 28

unmarried state of, 13

Grübel, Resia, 16, 17

letters of JR to, 6–9

Grübel, Salomon, 173

Grübel, Siegmund, 7, 17

Grübel family, 3–17

Grünberg, Isaac, 239, 240, 295, 359

Gründgens, Gustav, 295

Grüne Post, 102, 103

“Gruppe 1925,” 67, 68

Gubler, Friedrich Traugott, 35, 160, 161, 205, 506

letters of JR to, 175–77, 178–79, 184, 193, 194–95, 199–201, 213, 219

Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 128, 130, 159–63, 165–66, 170–73, 191, 201, 202, 204, 210–12, 219, 239, 245, 263, 345–47, 352, 366

Guthmann, Rudolf, 90, 92

Guttmann, Bernhard, 42, 43, 58, 71, 86, 90

Haas, Willy, 171, 173

Habsburg, Otto von, 273, 274, 486, 528

Habsburg monarchy, xii, xiv, 252, 253, 254, 268, 274, 412

Hamburg, 72, 215, 223

Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 97

Hardt, Ludwig, 524

Hauptmann, Gerhart, 71, 72, 128, 197, 289

Hausenstein, Wilhelm, 88, 89, 90, 108, 160, 203, 225

Hauser, Heinrich, 108, 109, 194

Hebel, J. P., 195

Hegemann, Werner, 498, 499

Hegner, Jacob, 258, 259

Heilung durch den Geist (Zweig), 158, 174

Heine, Heinrich, 16, 43, 70, 305, 372, 472

Hella, Alzir, 317, 318, 401, 425, 426

Hemingway, Ernest, xvii

Henderson, Arthur, 279, 282

Hensard, Professor, 76

Herbert, Zbigniew, 297

Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 247, 250

Herrenmode (Molnar), 16

Hesse, Hermann, 340–41, 442

letters of JR to, 326, 493–94

Hildebrandt, Franz von, 418

Hildebrandt, Fred, 126

Hindenburg, Paul von, 38–39, 40, 45, 56, 57, 79, 102

His Apostolic Majesty (Roth), 196

Hitchens, Christopher, xvii

Hitler, Adolf, 27, 96, 239, 254, 256, 259, 263, 266, 288–89, 307, 311, 332, 412, 415–18

anti-Semitism of, 285–86, 306, 508

foreign opposition to, 398, 413, 415, 416

rise of, 34, 57, 229, 238, 320, 346, 376, 377, 389, 408

violence of, 495, 498, 510

Hofer, Andreas, 383

Hofman-Montanus (government councillor), 320

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 224, 236, 466

Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Max Karl Joseph Maria zu, 295

letter of JR to, 266–67

Hölderlin, 101

Holitscher, Arthur, 103, 104

Holland, 92, 326, 423, 471, 481–82, 492

Holocaust, xiii, 8, 26, 27

Holy Roman Empire, 99

Homer, 218

hommes de bonne volonté, Les (Romains), 441

Hôpital Necker, 526

Horace, 151, 510

Horovitz, Bela, 162, 508–9

letters of JR to, 163–64, 239–40

Hotel Savoy (Roth), 4, 23, 27, 28, 162, 186, 221, 239–40

Hubermann, Bronislav, 16, 17

Huch, Ricarda, 307

Huebsch, Ben, 189, 259, 261–63, 314, 324, 342, 345, 347, 351–58, 361–65, 369, 373, 376, 395–96, 420, 424, 428, 437, 450, 463, 474

Einstein’s letter to, 398

Hugenberg, Alfred, 258, 259

Hugo, Victor, 88, 279, 305–6

Human Face, The (Picard), 323

humanism, 85, 88, 250

Humanitas Verlag, 427–29

Hundred Days, The (Roth), 196, 352, 375, 376, 386, 387, 389–90, 400, 405, 422–24, 426, 445, 452

Ibsen, Henrik, 48

Idelsohn, Fräulein, 27

Ihering, Herbert, 23

letter of JR to, 26–27

Illustriertes Blatt, 40, 41, 60, 93, 100

Imitation of Christ, The (Thomas à Kempis), 433

Insel, Die, 231

Insel Verlag, 162, 170, 193, 194, 197, 226, 254, 257, 280, 285, 318, 404, 509

“In the French Midi” (Roth), 33

“In the South of France” (Roth), 44

Intransigeant, L’, 319, 321

Ireland, 202

Ischl, 108

Israel, 416

Italy, xii, 22, 74–75, 76, 79, 125–26, 273, 289, 405

Yugoslavian conflict with, 94

Jacob, Heinrich Eduard, 71, 72, 438

Jacobs, Monty, 80, 81

Jacobsohn, Siegfried, 148

Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig, 305, 307

Jedlicka, Gotthard, 159–60

Jesuits, 66, 85, 384, 455

Jesus Christ, 43, 297, 308

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 283

Jews, 90, 238

assimilated, 229

Austrian, 136

Eastern, xv, 3, 119, 150–51, 383

German, 122, 398, 470

Hasidic, 266

Hungarian, 204

JR on, 13, 14, 16, 21, 47, 49–50, 65, 68, 91, 102, 153, 204–5, 223–24, 226, 246, 253, 336, 388, 390–91, 430

Russian, 42

scattering of, 195, 246

Socialist, 56

Viennese, 4

“Jews and Their Anti-Semites, The” (Roth), 130, 132, 291

Job, The Story of a Simple Man (Roth), 37, 86, 140, 143–44, 155, 161, 162, 170, 171, 217, 221

Einstein on, 398

film rights to, 263, 324, 342

sales of, 179, 180, 260

translations of, 174, 185, 189, 192, 269, 398, 531

Jonny spielt auf (Krenek), 195

Joseph Fouché: Bildnis eines politischen Menschen (Zweig), 140, 141

Joseph Roth: Eine Biographie (Bronsen), 3n, 231n, 233n

Joseph Roth Briefe, 1911–1939, xvi

Joyce, James, xvii, 214, 216

Judaism, 33, 39, 224, 414

Junge, Karl August, 149

Jünger, Ernst, 298, 299, 300

Kafka, Franz, 28, 94, 340

Kapuzinergruft, 56

Karl I, Emperor of Austria, 273, 274

Kästner, Erich, 240, 241

Katz, Richard, 102, 103

Kaus, Gina, 455

Keller, Gottfried, 16

Kerr, Alfred, 71, 72, 442

Kesten, Hermann, xv, xvi, 37, 96, 133, 138, 144, 156, 176, 177, 231–32, 286, 336, 342–44, 347, 349, 350, 356, 361–62, 367, 373, 384, 504

letters of JR to, 258–59

Keun, Irmgard, xi, 138, 232, 489, 521, 522

Keyserling, Count Hermann., 97

Kiepenheuer, Gustav, 37, 145, 149, 154–55, 175, 185, 194, 197, 235, 263, 420

JR compared with, 153–54

letters of JR to, 150–54

see also Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag

Kiepenheuer, Noa, 266, 267

Kiev, 79

Kinder einer Stadt (Natonek), 217–19

King in Exile (Daudet), 366

Kin Ping-Meh, 170

Kipling, Rudyard, 263–64, 265

Kippenberg, Anton, 226, 284, 285, 287, 288

Kisch, Egon Erwin, 68, 79, 80, 85–86, 349

“Knocker, A” (Herbert), 297

Knorr & Hirth, 156

Koch-Weser, Erich, 102, 103

Koeppen, Wolfgang, 407

Kokotek, Mrs., 332

Kolb, Annette, 108, 109, 111, 112–13, 302, 304, 326–27, 408–9, 442

letter of JR to, 378–79

Kollwitz, Käthe, 307

Kölnische Zeitung, 155–61

Königstein, 165, 166

Korrodi, Eduard, 444, 445

Koslowsky’s, 197

Kracauer, Siegfried, 60–61, 62, 70, 81, 90, 94, 104, 108, 109, 112, 119, 122, 125–26, 136, 148, 149, 176, 414

Kraus, Karl, 391, 392, 442

Krell, Max, 28, 29, 95

Kremlin, 87

Krenek, Ernst, 176, 177, 195, 201

letters of JR to, 206–7, 383–84

Kretschmer, Professor, 146

Kreuger, Ivar, 265

Kröger, Nelly, 385

Kroonenburg, Mr., 467–68

Krupp, 90

Kuczynski, Gelbfieber, 157

Kurt Wolff Verlag, 94, 95, 100, 101, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 117, 118

Lachmann, Kurt, 63, 65

Lampel, Peter, 176, 177, 441, 442

Landau, Dr., 68

Landauer, Walter, xv, 166, 179, 185, 191–92, 193, 210–12, 247, 249, 266, 328, 330, 339, 344, 346, 349, 352, 356, 396, 419, 420, 425, 429, 439, 455–59, 464–71, 475–76

letter of JR to, 345

Landshoff, Fritz Helmut, xv, 171, 173, 212, 247, 256, 257, 258, 259, 263, 291, 294, 342, 344, 345, 349, 352, 356, 370, 396, 429, 458

letter of JR to, 327–28

Langen-Müller Verlag, 194

Lania, Leo, 95, 96, 446

La Scala, 368

Lasswitz, Erich, 64, 65

Last Days of Mankind, The (Kraus), 392

Latin language, 47, 294

Latzko, Andreas, 184, 185

Lawrence, D. H., 142, 387–88

League of Nations, 380, 417, 418, 430

Lefèvre, Frederic, 334, 335, 399

Legend of the Holy Drinker, The (Roth), 236, 526

Le Havre, 73, 108

Leites, Konstantin, 314, 315, 356, 459

Lemberg, 6, 7, 13, 14–15

Lemberg, University of, 3

Lenin, V. I., 88, 305, 387

Leo Baeck Institute, 196

Leonhard, Rudolf Walter, 68, 71

Leopoldstadt, 15

Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 404, 405

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 96, 246, 247

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Zweig), 484

“Letters from Germany” (Roth), 104

“Letters from Poland” (Roth), 120

Leviathan, The (Roth), 196, 330, 352, 378, 420, 459

Lewis, Sinclair, 269

Librairie Stock, 240, 241

Lichtenstein, Erich, letters of JR to, 28–29

Lichtenstern, Dr., 144–45

Lidin, Vladimir, 165–66

Linden, Hermann, 175, 177

Lion, Ferdinand, 503, 504

Literarische Welt (LW), 171, 173

Löbe, Paul, 56, 57

Locarno, 75, 78

Locarno treaties, 71

Lodz, gas chambers in, 27

Logbuch, Das (Flake), 16, 17

Lombards, 47, 50

London, 21, 43, 105, 260, 276, 278, 285, 320, 322, 338, 359, 431

Loos, Adolf, 181

Lorraine, 104, 112

Lothar, Hans, 68, 69, 90

Love and Irritation in D. H. Lawrence (Schickele), 388

Lowry, Malcolm, xvii, 516–17

Luchaire, Jules, 190

Ludwig, Emil, 96–97

Lulu (Berg), 438

Lumia, Miss, 13

Lunzer, Heinz, xvi

Luschnat, David, 388–89

Luther, Martin, 365

Luxembourg, 16

Lycée Janson, 213, 215

Lycée Victor Duray, 392

Lyon, 43–44

Maass, Joachim, 429, 431

Macdonald, James Ramsay, 279, 282

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 355

Magellan, der Mann und seine Tat (Zweig), 517

Magnus, 95

Mahler, Alma, 242, 510

Mandelstam, Osip, 33

Manga Bell, Andrea, xi, 193, 195, 196–97, 224, 258, 317, 335, 344, 389, 448, 453, 466, 471–72, 497

children of, 213–16, 222, 223, 229, 238, 240, 334, 335, 392, 416, 421, 423, 425, 451–52, 472, 482, 484, 485, 488

illness of, 196, 219, 243, 450, 468

Manga Bell, King of Duala, 195, 214, 216

Manga Bell, Manga, 213–16, 222, 223, 229, 238, 240, 334, 335, 416, 451–52, 485

Manga Bell, Tüke, 416, 423, 482, 484

Mann, Erika, 255, 295, 407

letter of JR to, 406

Mann, Golo, 298, 299

Mann, Heinrich, 101, 155, 156, 171, 205, 288, 304, 384, 385, 423–24, 443–44

Mann, Klaus, xiii, 276, 279, 288, 295, 302–3, 330, 407, 501

letters of JR to, 255, 261, 294–95, 298–99, 300–301, 379–81

Mann, Thomas, 101, 104, 156, 173, 218, 251, 268–69, 276, 277, 283–84, 288, 295, 299, 303–4, 364, 388–89, 414, 443–44, 504

Marcel, Gabriel, 234–35, 236, 240, 241–42, 243, 387, 409–10, 424

Marcu, Valeriu, 372, 441, 443, 444, 447

Marcuse, Erna “Sasha,” 96, 98, 99

Marcuse, Ludwig, 367, 368–69, 375, 376, 391, 453–54

letters of JR to, 95–96, 97–98, 369–71

Marie Antoinette (Zweig), 220

marriage, JR on, 61

Marschek, Dr., 63

Marseille, xiii, 22–23, 33, 42, 45–57, 99, 100, 128, 129–33, 178, 328, 384, 399

Marx, Karl, 305, 387

Marxism, 68, 289

Mary Stuart (Zweig), 322, 397, 402

Masereel, Frans, 513, 514

Mass und Wert, 501

Matin, Le, 216, 367

Matisse, Henri, 33

Matveev, Michel, 313–15, 493

Matz, 111

Maupassant, Guy de, 182

May, Karl, 220

Mazurkiewicz, Maryla von, 40

Mehring, Walter, 258, 259

Meier-Graefe, Julius, 96, 97, 302, 304

Meine Freunde die Kollegen (Neumann), 210

Menschengesicht, Das (Picard), 175, 177

Menzel, Simon, 428

Mesmer, Franz, 158, 162, 164, 170, 174

Mexico, xv, 47, 516

Meyer, Georg Heinrich, 93

letters of JR to, 106

Middle Ages, 131, 207, 442

Mina, Aunt, 13

Minsk, 84

Mistral, Frédéric, 49

Modeblatt, 68

Mois, Le, 274

Molnar, Ferenc, 16

Mondadori, Alberto, 302

Montefiore, Moses, 428, 431

Morgenpost, 206

Morgenstern, Soma, xi, 108, 109, 126, 232–33, 524, 526

Moscow, 56, 74, 76, 79, 84, 85, 131, 379, 413

German embassy in, 89

Moses, 250, 509

Moulineux, 88

Mount Holyoke College, 431

Munich, 103, 105–6, 108, 141, 226

Münchener Neueste Nachrichten (MNN), 129, 139, 144, 156, 172, 221

music, JR on, 16

Musil, Robert, 118, 119

Mussolini, Benito, 74–75, 79, 510

Nahar (Weiss), 136

Naphtali, Fritz, 63, 65

Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 131, 379, 387, 445

Nassauer, Siegfried, 58, 59, 60, 63–64, 81, 90

nationalism, 34, 38, 91

National Socialist Party, 37, 71, 204, 273, 289, 300, 383, 414, 417

Natonek, Hans, 217–19

Nazis, 170, 204, 205, 226, 266

Neue Deutsche Blätter, 277, 278, 284–85, 288–89, 330

Neue Freie Presse, 133, 224, 294

Neuer Tag, 221, 517

Neue Rundschau (NR), 127, 138, 307

Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), xiv, 101

Neue Tag, Der, 4

Neue Tagebuch, Das, 281, 282, 329–39, 368–69, 371, 376, 517, 518

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 445

Neumann, Alfred, 455

Neumann, Robert, 210, 277, 278

“New Hartz Journey” (Roth), 171

New York, N.Y., 13, 62, 80, 87, 92, 397

New Yorker, The, 34

Niehans Verlag, 501

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 250

1934, 315, 316

Nobel Peace Prize, 71, 205, 268, 274, 282

Nobel Prize for Literature, 326

“No Entry, The Story of an Immoderate Man” (Roth), 141

Normandy, 72, 73, 416

Notre Dame cathedral, 184

Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), 115, 214, 216

Nouvelles Littéraires (NL), 96, 97, 117–18, 215, 333, 334, 399

N. Wiener Journal, 221

Odessa, 79, 84, 85–86

Olden, Mrs., 158

Olden, Rudolf, 517

Olympic Games, 417, 418

“On the Road in France” (Roth), 43, 44

On the Sublime and the Comic (Vischer), 13

Oprecht, Emil, 506

“Orient Express, The” (Roth), 162, 175

Ossietzky, Carl von, 148, 204–5, 368

Ostend, xiii, 231–32, 483, 484, 495, 496, 498–510

Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung, 10–11

Owen, Peter, 308

Padua, 131

“Palace of Scheherazade, The” (Roth), 193

Palestine, 48, 105, 329, 374, 412, 431

Palitzsch, O. A., 39, 40

pan-European movement, 137

Panopticum on Sunday, The (Roth), 129

Panoptikum: Gestalten und Kulissen (Roth), 129, 186

Panorama (Bertaux), 113, 119

Pantheon Books, 94

Papen, Franz von, 304, 307

Paquet, Alfons, 92

Paris, 3, 48, 54, 56, 62, 63

Austrian embassy in, 329

bridges of, 38

dogs and cats of, 45

ethnic diversity in, 44, 45

JR in, xi — xii, xiii, 29, 33–43, 57–58, 72–83, 85, 88, 95–98, 107–13, 132–39, 193–98, 460

St. Lazare Station in, 72–73

women of, 44, 45

Pariser Tageblatt, 445

Paris-Soir, 319, 321

patriotism, 55

Paulhan, Jean, 115

Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 93, 94, 107, 111, 247, 249, 405, 508–9

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, 235

Pélichy, Maria Gillès de, 178–80, 184–85

PEN Club, 496, 522

PEN Club (Brussels), 482, 488, 489

PEN Club (New York), 269, 530

Perez, Itzhak Leib, 405, 406

Perlefter: The Story of a Bourgeois (Roth), 37, 130, 133, 186

Peters, Hans Otto, 188, 189–90

Pflaum, Generalkonsul, 155, 156

Phaidon Verlag, 162, 165, 171, 175

Picard, Max, 35, 80, 81, 84, 149, 160, 175–76, 177, 194, 200, 201, 205, 225, 317, 323, 341, 375, 382

Pinker, Ralph, 263, 265

Pius XI, Pope, 417, 430

Plato, 90

Plon publishing house, 196, 212, 214, 235, 290, 399, 405, 424

letter of JR to, 394–95

pogroms, xii, 195

Poiret, Françoise, 216

Poland, xii, 27, 28, 84, 87, 120, 124, 183, 230, 502

Polgar, Alfred, 317, 386

Polignac, Prince Edmond de, 254, 255

Polignac, Winaretta Singer de, 255

Polish language, 13

Pompan, Alexander “Sandi,” 167

Portugal, 520, 521

Post Office Girl (Zweig), 183

Potemkin, Grigory Aleksandrovich, 379

Poupet, Mr., 196, 202, 270, 336, 344, 367, 399

Praag, Siegfried Emanuel, 254, 255

Prager Presse, 428

Prager Tagblatt, 14, 15, 93

Prague, 15, 27, 80, 93, 94, 136, 330, 384

Praz, Mario, 327

Prensky, Eva, 183

Preussische Akademie der Künste: Sektion für Dichtkunst, 305, 307

Propyläen Verlag, 29

Protestantism, 297, 370, 431

Proust, Marcel, 28, 218

Provence, 39, 42, 48

bullfights in, 49

Prussia, 36, 39, 50, 230, 257, 279, 412, 498

Querido, Emanuel, 291, 293, 466–67

Querido Verlag, xvi, 166, 173, 257, 290, 291, 293, 300–302, 328, 330, 357, 369, 458, 459, 485, 497, 501–2

Radek, Karl, 413

Radetzky March, The (Roth), xii, 37, 171, 181, 199, 202, 208–12, 214, 219, 260, 310, 317, 358, 375, 463

French translation of, 196, 226, 229, 234, 235, 243–44, 290, 316, 409

reviews of, 217, 219, 225

royalties from, 222, 260, 263

serialization of, 191, 203

Radio Paris, 319

“Rare and ever rarer in this world of empirical facts. .” (Roth), 23, 154

Rares, Sibyl, xi

Rebellion (Roth), 28, 186, 239–40

Red Army, 221

Red Cross, 274

Reece, Mr., 329, 349, 361, 363, 427, 429

Regular, The (Roth), 422, 425, 427–28, 456, 471

Reichler, Hedi, 105, 167, 169, 173

letters of JR to, 144–45

Reichler, Jenny, 239

emigration to Palestine by, 374

letters of JR to, 104–5, 145–47, 150, 167–69, 173–74, 177–78, 187, 192, 222

Reichler, Selig, 175, 187, 259

emigration to Palestine by, 374

letters of JR to, 104–5, 145–47, 168, 177–78

Reichner, Herbert, 390–92, 404, 421, 508–9, 520, 521

Reichner-Verlag, 419, 420

Reichsbanner, 102, 103

Reichspost, 455, 456, 510

Reichsschrifttumskammer, 509, 510, 511

Reichswehr, 299, 367

Reifenberg, Benno, 35, 40, 47, 58–59, 62–64, 66, 68, 70, 76, 97, 102, 119, 166, 196, 201, 236, 296, 297

JR’s relationship with, 92–93, 175, 176, 200, 203, 272

letters of JR to, xv, 4, 33, 38–39, 43–46, 49–57, 72–73, 76–81, 83–84, 87–94, 99–100, 103–4, 107–9, 110–12, 114–15, 122–27, 129, 149, 159, 160, 188, 197, 198–99, 205–6

letters to JR from, 73–75, 95, 131, 148, 159–60, 203, 225

Reifenberg, Hans, 87

Reifenberg, Jan, 77, 84, 100, 109, 123, 148, 149, 159

Reifenberg, Maryla, 88, 100, 109, 129, 149, 159

Remarque, Erich Maria, 318

Rembrandt van Rijn, 88

Report from a Parisian Paradise (Roth), 44, 46, 73, 75, 80, 98, 101, 518

“Report from a Parisian Paradise” (Roth), 77, 80, 81

“Rest While Watching the Demolition” (Roth), 9, 101, 518

Rhone River, 43

Rieger, Erwin, 268, 269

Rieke, Aunt, 13

Right and Left (Roth), 23, 36, 116, 128, 133, 186

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 100, 162, 340

Rimbaud, Arthur, xv

Ringhofer, Walter, 527

Rio de Janeiro, xv

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 220

Rocca, Enrico, 170–71, 173

Rode, Walter, 498, 499

Roethe, Gustav, 92

Rohan, Prince Karl Anton, 105, 106

Rolland, Romain, 273, 274, 279, 280, 287, 411, 412, 413, 444, 445, 495

Romains, Jules, 440–41, 442

Romantic Agony, The (Praz), 327

Romanticism, 54, 327

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 264, 265, 530

Rosner, Mr., 347, 349

Roth (actor), 15–16

Roth, Friederike Reichler “Friedl” (wife), xii, 19, 42, 70, 89, 101, 106, 112, 155, 156, 407, 453

birth of, 26

courtship and marriage of JR and, 21–23, 26

erratic behavior of, 22, 140

hospitalization of, 26, 36, 139–40, 141, 149, 185, 204, 374–75, 421, 493

JR’s divorce of, 408

JR’s relationship with, 66, 90, 96, 104, 124, 142, 144, 145, 178, 452

letters to Paula Grübel of, 25, 27

medications of, 146

Nazi murder of, 26

personality of, 22, 26, 66

physical frailty and illness of, 22, 39, 48, 51, 104, 117–19, 132, 135–36, 139–40, 142, 146–47, 157, 167–69, 177–78, 181, 187, 192, 194, 222, 224, 230, 292, 421, 452

schizophrenia of, xi, 26, 34, 140, 144–47

stylish appearance of, 22

Roth, Joseph, 19, 31, 227

alcoholism of, 16, 160, 175, 202, 282, 291–92, 299, 350, 391, 424, 425–26, 429, 440, 444, 447, 461, 479–80, 484, 504, 517

antisocial tendencies of, 66–67, 144

articles of, 4, 33, 43, 44, 70, 87, 89–91, 114, 116, 126, 132, 142, 150, 155, 186, 204, 344, 377

artistic conscience of, 138

biography of, xvi, 3n

birth of, 3, 150, 309

book reviews of, 80

burial of, 526

celebrity of, 85, 104, 153

childhood and adolescence of, 1, 3–9, 151–52, 208

collapse and death of, 3, 87, 459, 506, 526, 531

contradictory, changeable nature of, xiv, 85

depression of, 147, 151, 188, 199–200, 338, 432–33, 437–38, 445–46, 454–55, 464–65, 468, 475–77

dissembling of, 4, 154

dreams of, 87, 151

early pacifist leanings of, 4

Eastern Jewish heritage of, xv, 3, 88, 119, 150–51, 220, 233, 247, 249–50, 266, 279, 347, 411, 461

exile of, xi — xiii, 29, 36

eye ailment of, 184–87, 197, 203, 529

feuilletons of, xiii, xvii, 33–34, 40, 43, 44–47, 49, 71, 77–79, 129

financial concerns of, 4, 9, 10–11, 21, 24, 54–55, 59, 70, 81, 83, 88, 93, 95, 104, 107, 114, 129, 139, 142, 151, 158, 160–62, 171–72, 194, 212, 421–22

generosity of, xiii, xv, 4, 361

gymnasium and university education of, 3–4, 6, 7–8, 10, 12–13, 91, 152, 207, 220, 309–10

habitual anxiety of, 3, 44–46, 49, 53, 432–33, 441–42, 467

idea of home as lifelong aversion of, 3

illnesses of, 16–17, 77, 79, 80–81, 84, 89, 109, 110–11, 125, 145, 168, 183–84, 187, 203, 315–16, 322, 466, 468–69

as an implacable hater, 137–38, 151–52

impracticality of, xiv — xv

income of, 26, 78, 84, 149, 150, 155, 159, 167, 171–72, 191, 439–40

independence and individuality of, 4, 12, 21, 186

industry and tirelessness of, xiv

intelligence of, 33

jealousy of, 22

journalism career of, xi — xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 4, 14, 22, 24, 26–27, 33–36, 72–78, 116, 148, 153, 159–63, 221

law suits against, 175

love affairs of, 178–80, 184–85, 193, 195, 196–97

military service and awards of, xi, 4, 9, 13, 14, 56, 153, 220–21

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

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