What is this haunting melody? Who is the Gramophone Man of Petticoat Lane? In episode 7 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast we investigate. https://t.co/TG9eAGG9wG @JewishMuseumLDN @LBTHArchives @EngageQM @MichaelRosenYes @susannahclapp @RSHistCentre

24/4/25 Film screening EAST ENDINGS by Mark Jay A 1993 documentary offers an intimate portrait of the immigrant communities of 1930s East London, the diversity of the Jewish diaspora, its language, food religion & humour – and its politics of solidarity. https://t.co/7Nz5FgtUHz

Thank you to UKRI and @ahrcpress for supporting our engagement project The Cockney Yiddish Podcast which has brought our research on a forgotten London subculture & its music, literature and social life to 5k+ listeners in its first month. @QMUL_HSS https://t.co/HNZJSOr0yZ

In Ep 6 we go back to the 1950s to imagine the smell of gefilte fish wafting through East End streets & talk to Aditi Anand of the @MigrationMuseum about the sweet and bitter memories that food can provoke. https://t.co/GmHfmT4BTq @MuseumsAssoc @DrMatthewSweet

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Whitechapel, my Whitechapel! In Episode 6 of the pod we look at misty-eyed memories of the Jewish East End in Yiddish and English and ask: what does nostalgia really mean? Listen here: https://t.co/LWq6XFgasD @LBTHArchives @JewishMuseumLDN @QMUL_HSS

If you want a glimpse of what it might have been like at a Yiddish theatre in Whitechapel in 1910, catch this brilliant production. Tears, slapstick comedy, music, a tormented artist and plenty of oyveying…the only inauthentic thing was the politeness of the audience. Shekoyech!

In Episode 4 @MichaelRosenYes tells us about how growing up with East End #Yiddish words and Yiddish-ish words shaped his imagination as a writer. @paulkerswill @LBTHArchives @QMUL_HSS @EngageQM

Aaron Nager, London Yiddish comedian, wrote this music hall song in 1903 about a feisty East End woman living it up in the West End. In Episode 4 https://t.co/NzYo5E0okn we explore Cockney Yiddish comedy in fiction and music with special guest @MichaelRosenYes

The Pavilion, Whitechapel, was a key venue in London’s pre-war Yiddish theatre scene. We explore edgy music hall songs, Shakespeare in Yiddish and grand opera on the Commercial Road in ep 3 of the https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ Podcast @susannahclapp @DrMatthewSweet @AlastairHackney

We made this episode to pay tribute to the pioneers of the Jewish left in the 1890s and 1930s who marched with other Eastenders against the exploitation of all workers @MichaelRosenYes @BarnabyRaine @JewishSocialist https://t.co/EiOOSIbRBE

Listen to the new episode of The Cockney Yiddish Podcast talking all things Yiddish Theatre with guest star @davidschneider. Visit our Pitch Up stalls @JW3London to discover objects linked to the themes of each episode!

It’s the Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Listen to this jaunty song about Victorian Jewish immigrants & the East End police, hear about the antics of unruly audiences & pause for a more highbrow moment as actor @davidschneider performs Shakespeare in Yiddish. All in Ep 3, out now!

What happened when east European Jewish immigrants met Cockney culture in London’s Victorian East End? The Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Find out more in Episode 3, out now. https://t.co/3QkqlMD8Tu

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Thank you to @OxLifeWriting which welcomed us last year to give a talk on radical Jewish women of the East End. Hear more about women’s activism in the Stepney rent strikes of the 1930s in episode 2 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast

In Episode 2 of this new podcast, Nadia and Vivi discuss women’s role in political protest among the Yiddish-speaking immigrant population of London’s East End with historians @LiveseyRuth and @sarahrglynn @Amanda_Vickery @MissSarahWise @annsplaining

Interested in fascinating stories of London's East End Jews? Check out the Cockney Yiddish Podcast. From misbehavior at Yiddish theater to the radical left, lots to enjoy here. @CockneyYiddish https://t.co/R8lnzK9y18

Episode 2 of our new podcast looks at political organising in the Yiddish-speaking immigrant community of early 20C London with historians Prof Ruth Livesey on protest poetry and Dr Sarah Glynn on the Workers’ Circle @workerscircle @jdforward https://t.co/VVuVhelTpD

According to @londonist, The Cockney Yiddish podcast celebrates the legacy of London Yiddish culture ‘with verve, wit, perception and even a little chutzpah’. Listen now on Spotify, Acast etc and check out https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ for bonus material https://t.co/Tzw6ZD6Mlv