#148 - Vienna II - pre-WWI: Freud, Herzl & Rabbi Flesch

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