Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World

by Frederic V. Grunfeld

International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world.

Genres: History, Biography, Judaism, Philosophy

335 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Kim Zinkowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned about some authors I'd not been exposed to. Also, a bit more about the abuses to Jewish people in Vichy France. A horrible time for Western "civilization."

[Kerry Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

The work is text book in nature and examines the social and psycholgical lives of Jewish intellectuals in the early 20th century in central Europe, particularly Germany. Art, literature, fiction, music and physics was dominated by ethnic Jews who for the most part did not practice their religion. The author looks carefully at the prejudice and hatred toward them previous to the first world war and how it was used afterward to generate Hitler's rise to power. Many like Einstein were able to escape in time.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

best introduction to the period (milieu) I have found; especially good on 'marginal' figures like Muhsam or Kolmar