The Last Chronicler of a Lost World

In Wandering Jews, Joseph Roth’s 1927 collection of essays, the writer describes his hometown of Brody as a place that “begins with little huts and ends with them. After a while the huts are replaced by houses. Streets begin. One runs from north to south, the other from east to west. Where they intersect is the marketplace. At the far end of the north-south street is the railway station.”