Trudy Gold
Dr. Herzl of Budapest, Vienna, and Paris
Summary
Trudy Gold discusses the life of Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and political activist Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) and shares why she thinks he changed the world.
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.
Well, that’s an interesting, very interesting point. I think it added to the cocktail Martin, certainly. But it wasn’t just about that. I think it was the Jew as the other. I think you’ve got, got 2000 years in the Christian world, tragically of Jew hatred. I dunno how you excise it. Look, just to give you the basic, there is not a positive image of a Jew anywhere in European civilization until 1729 when a figure of the German enlightenment lessen wrote the Jews. And it fails on the German stage because no one could imagine a Jew to be a hero. It’s a complicated story.
No, James, he had his sister who died when she was 20 tragically.