Trudy Gold
bar Kokhba / ben Zakkai: Who are the Heroes of the Jews?
Summary
Trudy Gold explores the lives of two Jewish heroes: Yohanan ben Zakkai and Simon bar Kochba. During the First Jewish-Roman War, Yohanan ben Zakkai was smuggled out of Jerusalem. Believing defeat inevitable, he gained permission to establish a study centre to save Jews and Judaism. Later, in the third Jewish War, Simon bar Kochba managed to resist the might of Rome for three years. In this lecture Trudy Gold asks, do these extraordinary people illuminate the dilemma of the Jew to this day?
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.