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Lecture

Trudy Gold and Tanya Gold
The Curious Phenomenon of Jewish Self Hatred

Wednesday 20.05.2026

How to watch

This lecture starts on 20 May at 7:00pm (UK).

Summary

There are many responses within a victim group: sometimes overachievement and sometimes, tragically, self-hatred. This terrible phenomenon has dogged the Jewish community from the Middle Ages to 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.

Tanya Gold

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Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist. She writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, and others. She won feature writer of the year at the 2009 British Press Awards and arts and culture story of the year at the 2015 Foreign Press Association Awards.