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Genius & anxiety, how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947, Norman Lebrecht

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Genius & anxiety, how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947, Norman Lebrecht

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-417) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Genius & anxiety

Nature of contents

bibliography

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1099692276

Responsibility statement

Norman Lebrecht

Sub title

how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947

Summary

"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 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 world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why?"--Amazon

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Genius and anxiety

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