Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

by Norman Lebrecht

Book Overview

This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic history...especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past" (The Wall Street Journal).

In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982134224
• ISBN13: 9781982134228
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"