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Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R510
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Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Hardcover): Norman Lebrecht

Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Hardcover)

Norman Lebrecht

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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. These visionaries all have something in common - their Jewish origins and a gift for thinking outside the box. 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?

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Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2019
Authors: Norman Lebrecht
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-667-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Biography > Literary
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
LSN: 1-78607-667-5
Barcode: 9781786076670

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