Trudy Gold
1290 and Expulsions: Where to Go?
Summary
At the end of the reign of Henry III and Edward I, the Jewish community had been impoverished, decimated, and, of those who survived, had mostly converted or fled. Trudy Gold discusses the Jews who fled and some of the theories of where they might have gone.
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.
Honestly, I wouldn’t imagine it was that much because they’d been robbed of everything. The king had taken so much from them and he’d stopped them being money lenders, remember. I know the story of who was the man who lent George Washington money and I think his heirs and it was never paid back. And he was pulled out of synagogue and he died penniless in England, I believe. And some Wag worked out that if his family were ever paid back, America would be bankrupt. But I think that’s another story.
You get onto one of the Jewish genealogy sites. We have good people like Arlene Bier, who quite often listen and that’s how you do it. And then the Jewish History Institute has professional genealogies. Thank you. And the Jewish History Institute in Poland. There’s Jewish History Institutes everywhere in Warsaw. She’s talking about the one in Warsaw.
Spain was relatively prosperous. Yes, I should have mentioned that, Danny. But you’ve got to remember, it’s Christianizing. The north of Spain is Christianizing. By 1492, there’s only one stronghold left. It’s possible that some had gone there. They might have gone down to the south of France and crossed over there. Because remember, that area was quite free. The counts of Toulouse and the people who ruled Albi, they were very, very tolerant of all sorts of heresies in inverted commerce. It’s the land of the Cathars. So, yes, it’s quite probable that some would’ve gone, but I wouldn’t have thought many because it was tightening up.