A review by veryperi22
Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht

5.0

I've been meaning to review this book for a couple of weeks now, but seeing that I probably won't get to it, I'll just paste my follow up notes here, so I don't lose it.

Disraeli: Coningsby, Sybil, Tancred

Thakeray: Colingsby

Dickens caricature of Disraeli in Hard times: James Harthouse

Samson Rafael Hirsch: 19 letters

History of Geiger and Reform jews

The Prime Minister by Trollope (features bemont as mellmonte)

The Age of innocence by Edith Whaton ( features Belmont)

Oiliver Twist by Dickens (fagin, Eliza Davis attacks dickens about this)

Our Mutual friend by Dickens (atonement to Eliza Davis for Fagin)

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (early inspiration for Zionism )

Who is Sarah Bernhardt, actress, celebrity

Watch Carmen, first premiered featuring Bernhardt

Kol nidrei by Hermann Levi (musical pc)

Who is Solomon Schechter?
movie: A serious man: about conservative Judaism

Israel Zangwill. Children of the Ghetto. Who is IZ?

Hatikva: smetana Moldova source

Without Schnitzler, there Is no Freud (read more about Schitzler and Hirschfeld, sexual science)

Watch the movie Eyes Wide Shut, based on schnitzlers play.

Irving Berlin, American music. 1500 songs.

Kafka and belz in Marienbad?

Leo Szilard: his version of the facts ( anti atomic bomb activist, inventor of the atom bomb)

Watch the movie Casablanca