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Lecture

Trudy Gold
From Dreyfus to Vichy

Thursday 11.12.2025

How to watch

This lecture starts on 11 December at 5:00pm (UK).

Summary

The Dreyfus affair (1894–1906), with its naked antisemitism, rocked France and divided a nation. This split never healed and tragically manifested itself in the Vichy France (1940–44). Are we witnessing its latest embodiment today?

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.