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1786076675

Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947.

Author: Lebrecht, Norman.

Publication year: 2019

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Classification: 920.0092

Publisher: London : Oneworld, 2019.

ISBN: 9781786076670 (hbk.) : 20.00

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A chronicle of a one-hundred year period in which Jewish people shaped culture, thought and politics and were shaped irrevocably by the world in kind. A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our 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.