a unique chronicle of the years 1847 1947 the century when the jewish people changed the world and it changed them 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 norman lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the jewish intellectuals writers scientists and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it in genius amp anxiety lebrecht begins with the communist manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947 when israel was founded this robust magnificent volume beautifully designed is an urgent and necessary celebration of jewish genius and contribution
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