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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