Emancipation - Goldfarb, Michael
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The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression. Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism.…mehr

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The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression. Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism.
Autorenporträt
For almost two decades, Michael Goldfarb was public radio’s voice in London.  First, as NPR’s London Bureau Chief then as Senior Correspondent of Inside Out, the award-winning public radio documentary program.  In that time Goldfarb covered major conflicts from Bosnia to Iraq, conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, as well as British politics and culture.  His reports, written with flair and insight, have won him the highest honors on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and British radio’s highest honor, the Sony Award, in the category of Best Original Writing for Radio.  He was the first American to win that award.