Trudy Gold
Germany and Jewish Identity 1750’s – 1933, Part 3
Summary
Trudy Gold continues a conversations on what it means to be a Jew in the modern world and explores some of the history that shapes the answer. Part 3 of 5.
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.
A lot of them stayed because of religiosity, particularly in Eastern Europe. Look, the rule seems to be when the outside world is seductive, if you haven’t had a proper Jewish education religiously, you are going to flop straight into it. It’s how do we walk the tightrope? That’s the question, it’s still with us. And of course, you’ve got to remember two extraordinary events. One, the most horrific, the Shoah, and then the establishment of the state of Israel. It’s incalculable, the impact of those events.
I think he suffered from the name… That terrible disease: Jewish self-hatred. A lot of people … I’ve met people like that. You can see that in many groups who are persecuted, particularly if they don’t get the benefit of the group. Why should they have all the pain when they get none of the benefit? And they turn against their own group.