HIST223 Lecture 2: Hist 223 - Lesson 2.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: History
• Course: HIST223
• Professor: Gary Bruce

Document Summary

Geoffrin: people gathered together and talked about the ideas and thoughts of the age, like a coffee house, intellectuals got together and exchanged their ideas about liberty, equality & fraternity, talked about people being born free, and somehow along the way certain individual"s (jews) rights were diminished, the minute we move from the idea that the person in front of us has the same rights as us, then we know the path will end up in auschwitz primal levey, intellectual jews participated in these salons. Jewish socrates : he was worried about how separate jews were from the rest of german society, by translating the torah, he wanted to integrate jews with the society around them, jews became much more german because of moses, he died and was buried in berlin, we have in our mind the nazi idea of jews that they were separate and looked different.