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Book Review

The Soul and Anxiety of research combs the corners of the globe for the epic story,
derived on the one hand from the improved status of the Jews
Genius in Western society after Napoleonic reforms, and the other
their anxiety of still being accorded a second-class status.
Norman Lebrecht. Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed There are the familiar names like Marx, Einstein, the
the World, 1847-1947. New York: Scribner, 2019. iconic actress Sarah Bernhardt and prototype angst-driven
Jeffrey Orens. The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Franz Kafka, who failed to realize that he was a genius, the
Einstein and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science. similarly fragile Marcel Proust, Biro, the inventor of the
New York: Pegasus Books, 2021. ball point pen, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siege, creators of the
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the Superman comic strip (drawing Joseph Goebbel’s disdainful
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world dismissal of this Jewish creation) to Dr. Jonas Salk, creator
to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the of the polio vaccine. And the scientists behind the Manhattan
unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw project, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller and
“Genius: 1% inspiration; 99% perspiration.” Thomas Einstein. The contribution of Jews to advancement of
Edison inferior Jewish music). And so, anti-Semitism caught on in sexual awareness, first in the literature by the priapic Arthur
Europe, exacerbated by the infamous Dreyfus Affair and the Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig, following D.H. Lawrence and
By Dr. Ronald J. Meyers slaughter of millions of innocent Jews over the next decades; James Joyce, analyzed and clarified in the testaments of
then in 1947, the United Nation’s acknowledgement of the Sigmund Freud. Lebrecht gives particular recognition to
Genius: a homophone Jewish homeland in Palestine and the discovery by a Bedouin the contribution of Jewish genius to music, from classical
with two etymology sources, shepherd in Qumran, of the remnants of a thriving ancient musicians like Mendelssohn, Mahler and Schoenberg, to
deriving from the Latin gens Jewish civilization in the Dead Sea Scrolls Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Kurt Weil, Aaron Copland,
procreative power, and the Norman Lebrecht, in Genius and Anxiety, has presented Leonard Bernstein. The young American Emma Lazarus,
Arabic jinn, a guiding spirit a detailed and deeply felt account of the visionary no immigrant herself, incapsulated the hope and dreams
or genie. The development accomplishment of Jewish genius. A specialist in music of immigrants seeking these shores in her sonnet The New
of genius is a lonely prospect and journalist for the BBC, he celebrates the contribution Colossus, affixed to the Statue of Liberty after her death.
which take long to nurture of the Jews to the modern world in diverse fields of music, And businessman like the Warner Brothers, Louis B. Mayer,
with success only a slim economics, psychology, finance, film, politics. His subject is Harry Cohn, Samuel Goldwyn who fostered the creation of
likelihood. The two books the transformation of the Jews, there was no dearth of bias Hollywood. Then there were the many Hungarian refugees,
under consideration agree on several aspect of genius, against the Jews that goes back to Pharoah in ancient Egypt
their importance to society and the psychological toll it and Haman in ancient Persia and the Roman conquerors. His Book Review on page 9
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There are some legal and practical advantages to owning your incapacitated.
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