#Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World 1847-1947

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Nonfiction Recommendations: Jewish American Heritage Month

Black, White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker

The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.

Bad Jews by Emily Tamkin

What does it mean to be a Bad Jew? Many Jews use the term “Bad Jew” as a weapon against other members of the community or even against themselves. You can be called a Bad Jew if you don’t keep kosher; if you only go to temple on Yom Kippur; if you don’t attend or send your children to Hebrew school; if you enjoy Christmas music; if your partner isn’t Jewish; if you don’t call your mother often enough. The list is endless. 

In Bad Jews, Emily Tamkin argues that perhaps there is no answer to this timeless question at all. Throughout American history, Jewish identities have evolved and transformed in a variety of ways. American Jewish history is full of discussions and debates and hand wringing over who is Jewish, how to be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish. In this book, Emily Tamkin examines the last 100 years of American Jewish politics, culture, identities, and arguments. Drawing on over 150 interviews, she tracks the evolution of Jewishness throughout American history, and explores many of the evolving and conflicting Jewish positions on assimilation; race; Zionism and Israel; affluence and poverty, philanthropy, finance, politics; and social justice. From this complex and nuanced history, Tamkin pinpoints perhaps the one truth about American Jewish It is always changing.

Genius & Anxiety by Norman Lebrecht

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 & 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.

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.

Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World

Want to give the history lover in your life an amazing Hannukah present?  Author Norman Lebrecht has collected some of the most amazing stories of Jewish people who have contributed heavily to the world as we know it. Focused on the period of time between 1847-1947, Genius & Anxiety tells the story of how Jewish people have changed the world.

The book includes stories including the well known…

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An incredible view of one culture's contributions to a complete world change

An incredible view of one culture’s contributions to a complete world change

A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world—and it changed them… but does this have something to do with the trials and tribulations they faced during that period as well? You can see it all here in 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…

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The 26 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in January 2020

Here is the list of the 26books that I posted on this site, JewishBookWorld.org in January 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site.

A Bas­ket Full of Figs by Ori Elon (on this site)

A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai by Steve Hochstadt (on this site)

Courage and Fear by Ola Hnatiuk (on this site)

The Face Tells the Secret by Jane Bern­stein (on this site)

Fly Already by Etgar Keret (on this site)

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht (on this site)

Gluskin Family History by Yosef Serebryanski, David B. Levy (on this site)

Hap­pi­ness, as Such by Natalia Ginzburg (on this site)

Here All Along: A Rein­tro­duc­tion to Judaism by Sarah Hur­witz (on this site)

Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth by Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (on this site)

I Am for My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples by David S. Ribner, Talli Y. Rosenbaum (on this site)

In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family by Lis Harris (on this site)

Judith Kerr: The Illustrators by Joan­na Carey (on this site)

Love Drones by Noam Dorr (on this site)

Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology by Jerome Yehuda Gellman (on this site)

The Plateau by Mag­gie Paxson (on this site)

Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) by Boris Fishman (on this site)

The ” Spectral Turn” Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire by Zuzanna Dziuban (on this site)

Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli: Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha by Uri Zur (on this site)

This Tilt­ing World by Colette Fel­lous (on this site)

Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity by Peter Schäfer (on this site)

Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism: The Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism (on this site)

” We are not only English Jews—we are Jewish Englishmen”: The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880 by Sara Abosch-Jacobson by Sara Abosch-Jacobson (on this site)

What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation by Mimi Lemay (on this site)

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (on this site)

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht

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…

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Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by British Jewish historian and critic Norman Lebrecht.

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An excerpt from “Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,” by Norman Lebrecht

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‘Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,’ by Norman Lebrecht: An Excerpt

An excerpt from “Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,” by Norman Lebrecht from Latest Information https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/books/review/genius-anxiety-how-jews-changed-the-world-1847-1947-by-norman-lebrecht-an-excerpt.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht

US: https://amzn.to/38M413U

UK: https://amzn.to/2PNOKXn

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An excerpt from “Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,” by Norman Lebrecht

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‘Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,’ by Norman Lebrecht: An Excerpt

By Unknown Author An excerpt from “Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,” by Norman Lebrecht Published: December 12, 2019 at 07:01PM from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2LMxIYB via IFTTT

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‘Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947,’ by Norman Lebrecht: An Excerpt by Unknown Author

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht 

US: https://amzn.to/38M413U

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht

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 & 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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