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Book SynopsisThe first quarter of the twenty-first century witnessed a dangerous spike in the number of Antisemitic incidents--harassment, vandalism, and violence against Jews in both the United states and around the world. The Anti-Defamation League's global report on extent of world-wide levels of Antisemitism found that while Jews represented only 0.02 percent of the world's population, 26 percent or more than two billion people out of the eight billion people in the the world hold Antisemitic views. The report found that people living in countries with the highest levels of Antisemitic views were countries with the smallest percentage and fewest numbers of Jewish citizens--demonstrating that there is extensive Antisemitism without Jews, highlighting the fact that most contemporary Antisemitism is NOT based on actual encounters with Jewish people but the result of the perpetuation of myths, tropes, and mythology about the Jewish people spread through modern propaganda mainly through the internet. Reacting to this dire situation, Spanish cultural writer and historian, Diego Moldes researched and wrote When Eisenstein Met Kafka, Jewish Contributions to the Modern World both to debunk the old mythological and stereotypical anti-Jewish tropes circulating on the internet and other media and to demonstrate, with extensive evidence, on the enormous scope that Jews have played in shaping our modern world. Writing for the general reader in almost encyclopedic fashion, Moldes profiles thousands of Jews who have made lasting and original contributions to fields as diverse as science, medicine, inventions, pharmaceuticals and drugs, mathematics, artificial intelligence, topology, statistics, literature, culture, philosophy, history, the economy, business, banking, marketing, finance, computing, fashion, textiles, cosmetics, sports, cinema, film, dance, television, radio, music, entertainment, comics, publishing, journalism, photography, media and advertising, the law, justice, and politics, and in art in all its forms and modern architecture. These overwhelming contributions have literally shaped and extensively improved our daily lives in the modern age. This book is an eye-opener for anyone unaware of the depth and breadth of Jewish contributions to modernity.
