Genius & Anxiety
How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
$49.93
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2020
Summary
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”.
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 from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl L…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982134266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982134267 |
| Author: | Norman Lebrecht |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 137mm x 206mm |
Critics Review
”[A] thrilling and tragic history… Mr. Lebrecht is especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past.” -The Wall Street Journal
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht is the world’s bestselling author on classical music. His Whitbread Award-winning novel, The Song of Names, is currently being developed into a feature film. Aside from the history of Western music, he has a lifelong passion for the culture and chronicles of the Jewish people and is the author of Genius & Anxiety. He lives in London.
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