Trudy Gold
Jews and the Beginnings of the German Enlightenment, Part 1
Summary
The German Enlightenment led a few influential thinkers to rethink their attitudes to the”Pariah” people the Jews. In Berlin in particular this was to have an extraordinary impact on the Community. The dangers and opportunities of modernity beckoned.
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.
This time it’s religion. Racial anti-Semitism, I’m going to give you two sessions on that, unfortunately, it doesn’t come in until the middle of the 19th century, and it’s about blood. At this stage, it’s the baggage of anti-Judaism. It’s going to turn as a result of extreme nationalism, the ideas of race, and blood, and spurious philosophy known as social Darwinism, which divided people into races, but I’ll talk a lot about that.