Trudy Gold
The Jews in England’s Green and Pleasant Land
Summary
England’s Green and Pleasant Land was a very difficult period in time for the Jews. Trudy Gold talks about the history surrounding this time and explores what life was like for the Jews who lived through it.
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.
The dark ages are actually the area before the Middle Ages, but revisionist history is saying they’re not so dark. It’s really from the fall of Rome. The old theory was that with the fall of Rome, literacy was lost for a long time. And that sort of signals the dark ages. But it’s quite, it’s much more complicated than that, because of course you have the venal bead in England.
Jackie, good point. There was no Jewish settlement, but they did find some Maccabean coins in Cold War. You know, people that would be the sea routine and corn of Kowa, the tin mines. And it’s possible that traders would’ve come here, but there wasn’t settlement. That’s the point.