Trudy Gold
Jews in Vienna at the Turn of the Century
Summary
Trudy Gold contextualizes the many layers that made up the world the Jewish people of Vienna were living in during the turn of the century.
Trudy Gold
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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There weren’t for a while actually, because you saw, 45% in the medical faculty. Yes, I know there were quotas, there were quotas in most universities between the wars. I mean, I think it was Harvard who introduced a Jewish quota in 1923 because 25% of the students were Jewish. Mrs. Romelli my mother was born in 1910, grew up in Vienna, but her grandfather, wealthy Schiff, had a synagogue named for him, Bertha Pappenheim was a cousin. I often wished I had experienced this Vienna.