Job was Roth's first resounding success as an author - and together with the Radetzky March, which appeared a year later, also formed the artistic highlight of his work: the little teacher Mendel Singer experienced great suffering, turned against his God and only found his way back to America at the end of his life the wondrous reunion with his son, who he believed dead, returned to his faith. Not only does the 'novel of a simple man,' as the subtitle goes, represent an exemplary fate, it is also a monument to the destroyed culture of the Eastern Jewish shtetl. The text follows the book edition of 1930. Afterword and a completely new commentary help to understand the Jewish background in particular.