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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Major Trends in Modern Jewish History

Thursday 30.09.2021

Summary

The Jewish people have a long history full of many different chapters. In this lecture Trudy Gold discusses the last 200 years of Jewish history and compares it to Jewish History as a whole.

Trudy Gold

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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.

The point is, you’ve still got people there. Look, I’ve got to check that with Tanya because I didn’t discuss that with her and I wasn’t at the conference. Look, you’ve got the looney left, but the point is they haven’t taken over the party. The party’s going in a different direction now. And let’s be real, let’s hope. Look, we’ve got a long way to go. Look, back in 1965, the Russians introduced a motion saying Israel was a racist state. It actually comes from Russia all this kind of rubbish.