Trudy Gold
Lloyd George and the Jews
Summary
Lloyd George was a man of contradictions. Born into a family of Welsh, evangelical Christians, he had an intimate knowledge of the “people of the book”. He served as Prime Minister between 1916 and 1922, overseeing crucial events in both Jewish and world history. George was an avowed Zionist, who also believed in the “power of World Jewry”. In 1936 he visited Hitler who, for a time, he admired. This is the story of his complicated relationship with the Jewish People.
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.
There are many Brits who admire Napoleon, you know? He’s the first great European, and I think what Lloyd George remember, he wants to concentrate on creating that huge British Empire. Isn’t it fascinating? He came from a completely different background to the aristos, but he was still a man of the empire.