Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the worldâ€”and it changed them.

In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well knownâ€”Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth.

What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the worldâ€™s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why?

Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
Country USA
Author Norman Lebrecht
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781982134235
Label Scribner
Manufacturer Scribner
NumberOfPages 448
PublicationDate 2019-12-03
Publisher Scribner
ReleaseDate 2019-12-03
Studio Scribner

Country	USA
Author	Norman Lebrecht
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781982134235
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	448
PublicationDate	2019-12-03
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2019-12-03
Studio	Scribner

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

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