Norman Lebrecht is a famous historian, broadcaster, novelist and cultural commentator. He has written 12 books translated into 17 languages with an emphasis on
classical music, but including a best-selling novel which has been made into a Hollywood film. However it is his latest non fiction work called “Genius and Anxiety: how Jews changed the world 1847 to 1947” which is the subject of our interview. In the opinion of our interviewer Jonathan Goldberg QC, this is the simply the best book he has read in many years.
It describes the extraordinary contribution of Jewish genius to changing the world in the century from 1847 to 1947, but by reason of its author's extraordinary research, the secret private lives and inner turmoil of the subjects, who are household names such as Mendelssohn, Disraeli, Einstein, Freud and Sarah
Bernhardt, to name just a few, are laid bare as never before. Purchase his latest book on Amazon.
