Genius & anxiety : how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947 /
"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, th...
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New York :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1847: The visitor
- 1851: The wars of the Jews
- 1863: Brought to book
- 1875: Carmen, Quand-meme
- 1881: The Tsar's hamburger
- 1890: Two beards on a train
- 1897: Sex in the city
- 1905: The known unknowns
- 1911: Blues 'n' Jews
- 1917: Dear Lord
- 1924: Schoolboys
- 1933: Four murders
- 1938: Cities of refuge
- 1942: Black days
- 1947: New York, New York
- 2018: Bubbles at breakfast.