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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Chaim Weizmann and Arthur James Balfour

Tuesday 4.07.2023

Summary

Arthur James Balfour was a British aristocrat, politician, and born into almost unbelievable privilege. Chaim Weizmann was one of fifteen children born in a small town near Pinsk in the pale of settlement. This is the story of their relationship, which was seminal in Jewish history.

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.

I think he would have socialised with the anti, he would have socialised with the Rothschilds. Of course he would. He was an evangelical Christian. He took Weizmann’s view. He didn’t like Jews that much. And you’ve got to, as it’s already been said, he had a stereotypical view of some Jews. Look, Jews are complicated. You know, to the English, to the English of that period, they were terribly complicated. You’ve got the Jews of the East End and the Aliens Act, and you’ve got the Jewish cousinhood who are dining with Edward VII.