Heidelberg University was erected on a foundation of race persecution when, in 1386, Elector Rupert I of the Palatine seized from Heidelberg's Jews a group of dwellings to house his new Collegium Artistarum. Reversing its position three centuries later, Heidelberg offered sanctuary to a hounded Jew, celebrated Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Last week Heidelberg's plans for its 550th birthday celebration in June went notably awry because sister institutions throughout the world believed that Heidelberg had taken up Jew-baiting once again, lost caste as a centre of intellectual liberality.
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