FREUD

05/25/22 • 21 min

Join us with Adam Phillips, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud and author of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, as we explore the early life of the father of psychoanalysis.

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JABOTINSKY

Few figures in twentieth-century Jewish life were quite so admired and loathed as Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940). The founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, he is perhaps the most controversial of all Zionist political leaders. Join us as author Hillel Halkin explores the life and legacy of Jabotinsky. Halkin will also explain the importance of Odessa, Ukraine, Jabotinsky’s native city, in shaping his character and outlook.

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Join us with composer Allen Shawn, author of Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician, for an appreciation of the great musical genius who stood at the epicenter of 20th-century American musical life.

Music in this episode:

Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim - "Cool" from West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety

Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No 3., Kaddish

Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms