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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Enter the Russian Jews

Tuesday 21.11.2023

Summary

Beginning in 1881, the floodgates opened, bringing millions of Eastern European Jews to the United States. What shaped this exodus? How would these immigrants be changed by the New World, and how would they change it?

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.

Map of the Pale of Settlement

A Map of the Pale of Settlement