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The hosts explained that Lebrecht's book offered another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement, arguing that 19th and early20thcentury Jews were driven by a fear that their civil rights might be revoked.
In a book called Genius and Anxiety, How Jews Changed the World, 1847 to 1947, the author Norman Lebrecht puts forth another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement. Jews in the...
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The hosts explained that Lebrecht's book offered another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement, arguing that 19th and early20thcentury Jews were driven by a fear that their civil rights might be revoked.
In a book called Genius and Anxiety, How Jews Changed the World, 1847 to 1947, the author Norman Lebrecht puts forth another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement. Jews in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, he writes, are gripped by a dread that their rights to citizenship and free speech will be revoked.