Genius & anxiety: how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
1847: The visitor -- 1851: The wars of the Jews -- 1863: Brought to book -- 1875: Carmen, Quand-meme -- 1881: The Tsar's hamburger -- 1890: Two beards on a train -- 1897: Sex in the city -- 1905: The known unknowns -- 1911: Blues 'n' Jews -- 1917: Dear Lord -- 1924: Schoolboys -- 1933...
| Subtitles: | Genius and anxiety |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Scribner
December 2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jews
/ Genius
/ History 1847-1947
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Gifted persons Biography
B Biographies B Jews B BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish B Jews History 20th century B Religion / Judaism / History B Jews History 19th century B History / Jewish B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies B History B Jews Biography B Gifted persons |
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| Summary: | 1847: The visitor -- 1851: The wars of the Jews -- 1863: Brought to book -- 1875: Carmen, Quand-meme -- 1881: The Tsar's hamburger -- 1890: Two beards on a train -- 1897: Sex in the city -- 1905: The known unknowns -- 1911: Blues 'n' Jews -- 1917: Dear Lord -- 1924: Schoolboys -- 1933: Four murders -- 1938: Cities of refuge -- 1942: Black days -- 1947: New York, New York -- 2018: Bubbles at breakfast. "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?...In a political climate where anti-Semitism is resurgent and revisionism goes unchallenged, this history is the counterpoint to fake news and false assumptions. From the humble hamburger to the space rocket, everything has a Jewish reason." -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-417) and index |
| ISBN: | 1982134224 |