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Lecture

Trudy Gold
The Jews and the Seduction of England

Tuesday 6.06.2023

Summary

When Max Nordau spoke at the first Zionist Congress in 1897, he stated that England was the only country in the world free from the taint of anti-Semitism. This was certainly not true as England was the first country to apply the blood libel to Jews, the first to institute the wearing of the Jew badge, and the first to expel them. Yet when a community emerged in the 1660s, a love affair, perhaps unrequited, began. This is their story.

Trudy Gold

An image of 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.