Bøger af Michael Goldfarb

Michael Goldfarb's translator and guide when covering the Second Gulf War for NPR in 2003 was Ahmad Shawkat, an Iraqi Kurd who longed for Iraq to be free from tyranny. Not long after the USA had declared victory, Shawkat was assassinated by one of the Islamic terror groups he had railed about.

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.