Lecture
Trudy Gold
Wednesday 29.10.2025
Trudy Gold
Race Theory, Nationalism and the Jews: A Pattern for Today?
Wednesday 29.10.2025
How to watch
This lecture starts on 29 October at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
The 19th century was one of seismic change at a bewildering pace. As empires crumbled, the new modern world brought unprecedented challenges. Social, economic, and political unrest led to tribalism. Theories of race and social Darwinism abounded. Newly emancipated Jews were often at the forefront of the changes. Gradually, the “longest hatred” mutated into a race hatred. A new term was coined—antisemitism.
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.