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Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
Published 2019 by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, New York
ISBN 9781982134228
Bib Id 2305234
Copyright 2019
Edition First Scribner edition.
Description xix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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ISBN
1982134224 (hardcover)
9781982134228 (hardcover)
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920.0092 L
Title
Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
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Genius and anxiety
Edition
First Scribner edition.
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2019 by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, New York :
Copyright Date
©2019
Description
xix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-417) and index.
Summary
"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?"--Amazon.
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