Trudy Gold
The Jews of Poland and Lithuania: 1919–1939
Summary
An evaluation of the historical significance of the Pale of Settlement and its impact on Jewish life in Poland, highlighting the historical context of growing anti-Semitism in Poland, as well as various issues related to Poland, Lithuania, and the Jewish population during the early 20th century.
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.
When certain factors come together, economic, social, and political unrest, and chauvinist nationalism, antisemitism always comes on the rise. I think that is true of any country in which Jews live in the West. I personally believe the problem is that the image of the Jew, the stereotype of the Jew, is so deep in European culture, it can’t even be expunged.
Most of them who came to South Africa when Lithuania was part of the czarist empire. I believe that 80% of South African Jewry are Lithuanian. The big immigrations were between 1881 and 1914, when over two and a quarter million Jews left Eastern Europe.