Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed The World 1847-1947

03/08/2020
56 min
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Moses said the Law is everything. Jesus said love is everything. Marx said money is everything. Freud said sex is everything. Einstein said everything is relative. The latter three were among a small number of men and women who transformed how we see the world in the period 1847 – 1947. Author Norman Lebrecht discusses with historian Trudy Gold how a handful of people who happened to be Jewish thought outside of the box, to see what others could not, and in doing so changed the world.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2020.

About the speakers

Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is the author of fifteen works of non-fiction, including Genius and Anxiety, and the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler? and The Life and Death of Classical Music, which have been translated into seventeen languages. His first novel, The Song of Names, is now an award-winning film. He writes a monthly essay […]

Trudy Gold

Trudy Gold is the former CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and one of the founder members of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. She has taught Modern Jewish History in schools and universities and for adult groups throughout the World. She is the author of a timeline of Jewish History, […]

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed The World 1847-1947

03/08/2020
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56 min

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Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is the author of fifteen works of non-fiction, including Genius and Anxiety, and the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler? and...

Trudy Gold

Trudy Gold is the former CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and one of the founder members of the British delegation to the...