Roth's text appeared in December 1925 and is one of hundreds of feuilletons that the journalist and novelist Joseph Roth (1894 – 1939) published at the Frankfurter Zeitung between 1923 and 1933. This text is a book review discussing publications by Roth’s fellow German/Austrian-Jewish journalists, Alfred Polgar and Egon Erwin Kisch. Polgar’s and Kisch’s works, both of which appeared in 1926, were collections of reportage, essays, short fiction, and feuilletons. Roth’s text is a feuilleton about journalism and journalists and their worthiness to be considered, respectively, literary texts and the authors thereof.

The Incursion of Journalists into Posterity

Einbruch der Journalisten in die Nachwelt

December 19, 1925

Feuilleton

Louis Kaplan

Matthew Handelman

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journalism, urban life, modernity, press, book review