Trudy Gold
Napoleon and the Jews, Part 2
Summary
Napoleon knocked down the ghetto walls wherever he conquered. He ushered in a new era for the Jews, but at a price. “For the Jews as individuals everything, for Israel as a nation nothing.”
He unleashed on them all the dangers and all the opportunities of the modern world.
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.
Oh, yes.
It was 1866, I think. I’ll check that in the whole of Habsburg Empire. Yes, Nathan first came to Manchester, of course , it was the centre of cotton industry. He came with a fortune of 20,000 pounds. And then, he came to London where he married the daughter of one of the richest Jews in England, Levy Barent Cohen. And her other daughter, Levy Barent Cohen’s other daughter, married Nathan, married Moses Montefiore. And they lived next door to each other in Park Lane and I think Montefiore, they did business together. That must have been quite an interesting circle.