Trudy Gold
Jews, the Ottoman Empire, and Roxelana
Summary
Trudy Gold examines the intersection of Jewish history and the Ottoman Empire. She goes on to discuss Roxelana (1502–1558), the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and tells us how she became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history.
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.