Trudy Gold
Introduction to Jewish History in France and the Curious Case of Septimania
Summary
Today France has the 4th largest population of Jews worldwide. In this lecture Trudy Gold offers an introduction to the history of the French Jews. Additionally she discusses the Kingdom of Septimania.
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.
It was a very, very difficult time. Things would get better, you’d go back. Optimism, they didn’t have their own country. The wandering Jews.