Trudy Gold
Hollywood, the Warner Brothers, the Jazz Singer and the Jews: Part 2
Summary
F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed that “Hollywood is a Jewish dream and a gentile tragedy.” The truth, however, was very different. The Warner Brothers exemplified the break between the world of their fathers and the new world they were fashioning. The greatest example of this evolution is in the film “The Jazz Singer”, the Warner Brothers’ first talkie, released in 1927.
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.