Why did Vienna produce so many revolutionary Jews?
How Jewish was Freud? Was Herzl always a Zionist? Did the Beis Yakov movement actually start in Vienna rather than Krakow?
Nathan Birnbaum created the term Zionism – why don’t we know more about him? What was Gustav Mahler’s epitaph on his tombstone?
Chapters
03:12 Jewish Identity vs Jewish Society
06:04 Responses to Antisemitism: A Spectrum of Reactions
09:00 Five Cultural Figures and Their Influence
11:51 Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism
20:54 The Collision of Ideas: Herzl and Viennese Jewry
23:50 Herzl’s Proposals: Why they happened in Vienna
30:09 Nathan Birnbaum: The Ideologue of Zionism
35:24 Sigmund Freud: A Complex Jewish Identity
39:14 Freud’s Psychoanalysis: Does it have religious value?
46:30 Rabbi Moshe David Flesch: A Voice for Jewish Women
