Trudy Gold
Dr. Nordau of Budapest, Vienna, and Paris
Summary
Trudy Gold discusses the life and work of Max Nordau (1849–1923), a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a cofounder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) and president or vice-president of several Zionist congresses.
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.
Yes, he was a Zionist. He was a Zionist Teddy, yes. After his meeting with Herzl and even more, I think it’s the … the first Dreyfus trial didn’t really plunge him in. It’s the second trial in Ren, you know, where the monarchists behaved and the Catholics, they behave in such an antisemitic way, he realizes this is the cure to antisemitism Zionism.