The Jewish Imagination

This multi media course will examine how the Jewish imagination, freed from the constraints of the Ghetto and the Community was instrumental in shaping the movements that changed the modern world; Nationalism, Socialism, Capitalism and Liberalism. From the capitals of the old world to the cities of the new, Jews were pivotal in reshaping the West with all its dangers and opportunities. In the process they were forced to re-examine their own identities.

• 1900 Vienna – An experimental station on the way to the end of the World

• Dr Herzl, Dr Freud, Dr Adler and the Jewish problem

• The Mayor and the Jews

• Hitler in Vienna – Death, decadence and decay

• Ludwig of Bavaria, the Wagners, Nietsche and the Jews

• Bismark’s Berlin

• Paris – cholent with garlic!

• The Jews and the invention of the American Dream

• Kings of the World?

• Solving the Problem?

Chief Executive and Senior Historian Trudy Gold is one of our most popular lecturers, specialising in all aspects of the last two hundred years of Jewish history. She was the editor-in chief of the acclaimed teaching pack ‘Lessons of the Holocaust’ and consultant for the book ‘The TimechartHistory of Jewish Civilisation’.

Wednesday mornings 10.30am-12.30pm