Hiob

Hiob (Job) is Joseph Roth's austere modern parable of Mendel Singer, a poor Jewish teacher from a Galician shtetl whose faith is tested by illness, exile, family rupture, and bereavement. Written in a lucid, almost biblical prose, the novel transposes the Book of Job into the age of mass migration and modern disillusion. Roth's restrained style—at once folkloric, ironic, and deeply compassionate—p...