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Lecture

Trudy Gold
The Life and Times of Tom Lehrer

Thursday 2.01.2025

How to watch

This lecture starts on 2 January at 5:00pm (UK).

Summary

As the baby boomer generation grew into adulthood, they revolutionized society by breaking many of the old taboos. In particular, satire was reborn. To bring us smiling into the new year, we will reminisce with some of the most memorable highlights of Tom Lehrer, master satirist and genius professor of mathematics from Harvard University.

Trudy Gold

An image of 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.