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Rudolf Steiner and his Jewish milieu

In his day, Rudolf Steiner moved in a widely Jewish and very cosmopolitan milieu. Professor Tomáš Zdražil, who has been working in the field of the anthropological and anthroposophical foundations of Waldorf education at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart – Seminar for Waldorf Pedagogy since 2007, talks about Steiner's connections with Jewish contemporaries as well as his apparently contradictory anti-Semitic statements. Zdražil was born in the Czech Republic and studied history in Prague.

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What do they mean: the free intellectual life or the fundamental right to freedom of expression?

When Rudolf Steiner introduced the ideas of the threefold social organism into the discussion on a new social order in 1917 – at the same time as the…
When Rudolf Steiner introduced the ideas of the threefold social organism into the discussion on a new social order in 1917 – at the same time as the violent implementation of a new order in Russia – he took up the ideals of the French Revolution and…
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Rudolf Steiner and self-governance at the first Waldorf school

At the end of 1918, a small initiative group of Stuttgart entrepreneurs led by Emil Molt decided to launch a campaign for social renewal. It met with…
At the end of 1918, a small initiative group of Stuttgart entrepreneurs led by Emil Molt decided to launch a campaign for social renewal. It met with Rudolf Steiner in Dornach at the end of January 1919 to prepare a concept for the project.
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