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Norman Lebrecht and Trudy Gold
Is Anxiety Killing the Genius?

Wednesday 22.10.2025

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Please note this session will only be available to watch live.

Norman Lebrecht, author of Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, discusses with Trudy Gold the cultural boycott of Israel and its repercussions, tying it to why today he would reverse the title to Anxiety & Genius.

Jewish History & Culture 675 lectures

Norman Lebrecht

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Norman Lebrecht is a historian, cultural commentator, broadcaster and award-winning novelist.

His 12 books about music have been translated into 17 languages. Among the best-selling titles are The Maestro Myth, Who Killed Classical Music and Why Mahler?

Norman Lebrecht’s first novel The Song of Names won a Whitbread (now Costa) Award in 2003. It was filmed in 2018-19 with Tim Roth and Clive Owen in the leading roles.

His latest non-fiction work, Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, is published by Oneworld (UK) and Scribner in the US.

Trudy Gold

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Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
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