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The book Cities and People collects Josef Roth's moody feuilletons, essays, and reports, which create a panoramic picture of the early twentieth century. A native of Brody in Galicia, he returned from the First World War and began his journalistic career with city reports. St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Tirana, Sarajevo, Marseille, Nice - in the 1920s, he travelled the world and discovered new cities for himself and his readers. What reminds you of the war years in post-war Sarajevo? After nine years of the Bolshevik Revolution's victory, is the former nobleman's era still recognisable? What is it about the "white cities" of Southern France that attracts us? Thanks to his brilliant literary talent and light style, the young reporter wittily depicts reality in France, Albania, and Russia. In his essay "Jews: Roads and Roadlessness," Joseph Roth creates a moving and loving monument to the people he knew best from his childhood, the Jews of Eastern Europe, and provides short reports on the cities to which the Jews of the East dispersed after the First World War - Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York.