Trudy Gold
Jewish Migrations Eastwards, the Black Death, and a New Resting Place
Summary
This lecture explores the historical events in Western and Central Europe that prompted the migration of Jews to the East. Trudy Gold focuses on the period from the Third Crusade onward, highlighting the complex relationship between the papacy and secular rulers. The discussion also covers Poland’s welcoming stance under Casimir the Great, the establishment of the Franciscan and Dominican orders, and their later involvement in the Inquisition.
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.
Because it’s a kind of dialect of German, written in Hebrew letters.
To start with they were literate and they would study. You’ve got to remember what Europe was like. It was very stratified and it was a peasant society. The problem was that when the Jews finally emerged from the ghettos of Europe at the time of the Enlightenment, Europe had passed them by in their own thinking.