Trudy Gold
‘The Deluge’ 1648: The Massacres in Ukraine and its Consequences
Summary
The lecture covers the historical stability of Polish Jewry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, emphasizing the rise of rabbinic figures in Krakow and their diverse scholarly engagements. The period of stability wanes with the weakening of the Polish state and unrest, highlighting the Jewish community’s role as middlemen for the Polish nobility. The collaboration between Cossacks and Muslims is mentioned, along with varying historical estimates of the death toll.
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.
Because he’s a hero to them. He’s a hero of Ukrainian nationalism. In Russia he’s a hero.
He was a follower of Sabbatai Zevi. That’s why I mentioned Sabbatai Zevi. But he went a lot further.
We will never know the numbers because we don’t know the real numbers of population. Certainly in Ukrainian history, the numbers are very much reduced and in Jewish history they’re up more. But serious Jewish scholars have knocked it down to about 60,000.