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GENIUS AND ANXIETY
How Jews Changed the World, 1847 - 1947
A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world 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 known - 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 have Jewish origins. They all have a gift for thinking outside the box and all of them think fast. In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How?
Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to 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, he begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded.
Norman Lebrecht is the author of 12 works of non-fiction and three novels. His international bestsellers THE MAESTRO MYTH, WHY MAHLER, and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CLASSICAL MUSIC have been translated into 17 languages. Norman Lebrecht's first novel, THE SONG OF NAMES, won a Whitbread Award in 2003. His website, Slipped Disc, is the world's #1 classical music noticeboard, with 1.5 million visitors each month. In a 40-year journalistic career, he was a columnist on the Daily Telegraph, a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and the Assistant Editor of the Evening Standard. He writes for the Spectator and the Wall Street Journal. Norman Lebrecht has taught at numerous universities, among them Yale, Syracuse, SUNY Buffalo, UMKC Kansas City, USC Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon, Peabody/John Hopkins, Tel Aviv and Shanghai Conservatoire of Music. Norman Lebrecht lives in central London.
What do these visionaries have in common? They all have Jewish origins. They all have a gift for thinking outside the box and all of them think fast. In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How?
Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to 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, he begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded.
Norman Lebrecht is the author of 12 works of non-fiction and three novels. His international bestsellers THE MAESTRO MYTH, WHY MAHLER, and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CLASSICAL MUSIC have been translated into 17 languages. Norman Lebrecht's first novel, THE SONG OF NAMES, won a Whitbread Award in 2003. His website, Slipped Disc, is the world's #1 classical music noticeboard, with 1.5 million visitors each month. In a 40-year journalistic career, he was a columnist on the Daily Telegraph, a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and the Assistant Editor of the Evening Standard. He writes for the Spectator and the Wall Street Journal. Norman Lebrecht has taught at numerous universities, among them Yale, Syracuse, SUNY Buffalo, UMKC Kansas City, USC Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon, Peabody/John Hopkins, Tel Aviv and Shanghai Conservatoire of Music. Norman Lebrecht lives in central London.
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Published 2020-01-14 by Oneworld |