Genius and anxiety, Lebrecht, Norman

Автор: Lebrecht Norman
Название: Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
ISBN: 1786076675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786076670
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Описание: A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

Автор: Lebrecht, Norman
Название: Song Of Names
ISBN: 1400034892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400034895
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Lebrecht Norman
Название: The Song of Names (Movie Tie-In Edition)
ISBN: 0593082486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593082485
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Описание: Martin Simmonds' father tells him, "Never trust a musician when he speaks about love." The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds's care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are closer than brothers. But on the day he is to make his official debut, Dovidl disappears. Only 40 years later does Martin get his first clue about what happened to him.

In this ravishing novel of music and suspense, Norman Lebrecht unravels the strands of love, envy and exploitation that knot geniuses to their admirers. In doing so he also evokes the fragile bubble of Jewish life in prewar London; the fearful carnival of the Blitz, and the gray new world that emerged from its ashes. Bristling with ideas, lambent with feeling, The Song of Names is a masterful work of the imagination.

Автор: Lebrecht Norman
Название: Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
ISBN: 1982134267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982134266
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: This lively chronicle of the years 18471947the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the worldis ';[a] thrilling and tragic historyespecially 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 knownMarx, 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 & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded.

This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is ';an urgent and moving history' (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.