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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Readmission of the Jews to England

Thursday 2.12.2021

Summary

Trudy Gold discusses the many complicated aspects of Jews being readmitted to England after the expulsion.

Trudy Gold

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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.

Yes. For example, you’re going to see a flooding of poorer Jews from Silesia because the Habsburg queen Maria Theresa, who was the mother of Marie Antoinette, threw them all out and many of them came here.