Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed The World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht New Year and children legally changed their

and children legally changed their names in order to respond to an upsurge of antisemitism

These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems

Each story presents Harvey with a unique challenge―from convincing a child that he is not actually a chicken

and Jewish creativity

a superb English translation of an early Russian draft—among the very first—of “The Dybbuk

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed The World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht New Year and children legally changed theirA unique chronicle of the years 1847 1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the worldand 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 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