In 1926, Joseph Roth wrote a book that still sounds surprisingly fresh today. The problems of shtetl Jews who once emigrated to Western Europe and America have long become the common problems of millions of emigrants - Jews and non-Jews. But the attitude of Western Europeans towards their eastern neighbors has hardly changed. “The author consoles himself with the naive hope that he will have readers before whom he will not have to defend the Jews of the European East; readers who will bow their heads before suffering, the greatness of the human soul, and even before dirt, the eternal companion of grief,” writes Roth in the preface. Now our reader has the opportunity to justify the hope of the classic - “Roads of Jewish Wanderings” is finally being published in Russia.< /p>