Prophets Without Honour - Frederic V. Grunfeld

Title: Prophets Without Honour: A Background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and Their World
Author: Frederic V. Grunfeld
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First edition, first printing, 1979
ISBN: 0030178711
Condition: Second-hand. Good. The dust jacket has rubbing, surface marks, edge wear, creasing and small chips, with heavier wear at the corners and spine ends. There is a previous owner's inscription dated May 1980 on the front endpaper and a vertical strip of adhesive residue. The binding is intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A cultural and intellectual history of the German-Jewish world that produced figures including Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, tracing the lives, ideas and social conditions that shaped modern European thought.

Frederic V. Grunfeld reconstructs the creative ferment of German-speaking Jewish intellectual life before the Holocaust, placing writers, scientists, artists and thinkers within the political and cultural upheavals of their era.