Zangwill's Spitalfields: my free app explores immigrant life in 1890s London https://t.co/o0IwvyI7Z4

05/07/25, 6-7.30pm What is Cockney Yiddish? Come and be entertained with Cockney Yiddish natter, stories and songs which tell of what happened to language, culture and religion in the East End with historians Vivi Lachs and Nadia Valman.

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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

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

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

New podcast! What impact did Victorian Jewish migrants have on spoken English? Does the story of MLE help us understand? How was Yiddish inflected by Cockney culture? A Victorian Yiddish music hall song sparks discussion in Ep 1 @__BAAL @NATEfeed https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ

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

It’s 1889 and Morris Winchevsky, East End Yiddish poet, imagines inspiring London workers with revolutionary fire. We discuss his protest anthems and poetry on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast ep.2 https://t.co/Kb93chI6vx @JewishSocialist @davidschneider

Episode 2, ‘Protest and Politics’ is out! Discover the ideas, writing and songs of Yiddish-speaking East Enders striving for a fairer world with Cockney comrades. @JewishMuseumLDN @QMUL_HSS @LBTHArchives

Read all about Cockney Yiddish in today’s Spitalfields Life blog — and look at this beautiful Alfred Daniels painting! https://t.co/zNtlxlWs7B

Discover a lttle-known world of Yiddish song and story in this new podcast exploring Yiddish popular culture in the East End of London. Hosted by Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs. @jdforward @yivoinstitute @ParkesInstitute https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ

Episode 1 is out today! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://t.co/VVuVhelTpD

We were absolutely thrilled to have @MMargolyes as our guest reader bringing to life Yiddish stories of east London in English translation. Hear her remarkable vocal and emotional range on the #CockneyYiddishPodcast, launching tomorrow https://t.co/VVuVhelTpD

500 Years of Irish women in Tower Hamlets Saturday 15 March, 2-4pm A canter through 500 years of herstory will explore Irish woman living in the sixteenth-century Tower of London to the twentieth-century. https://t.co/srASJ0jmXe

In #CockneyYiddishPodcast Nadia and Vivi go for a historical amble around the old Jewish East End, discussing words, songs, writers, streets. Listen from 17 Feb. More on our website https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ ⁦@LBTHArchives⁩ ⁦@LondonHistorian⁩ ⁦@EngageQM⁩

Objects from the Cockney Jewish past are currently on display ⁦@JewishMuseumLDN⁩ pop up in Hampstead to coincide with the #CockneyYiddishPodcast including this bilingual English/Yiddish publication from the Workers’ Circle friendly society. ⁦@JewishHtgEurope⁩

Israel Zangwill, bestselling Victorian novelist, self-styled ‘Cockney Jew’, also unusual in his time for lamenting loss of mothertongue in 2nd generation immigrants. #CockneyYiddishPodcast explores how he & other London writers grappled with the decline of Yiddish @CheyetteBryan

We loved talking to @MichaelRosenYes about his family’s use of Yiddish, probably-Yiddish and maybe-Yiddish words in Episode 4 of The Cockney Yiddish Podcast https://t.co/HGH4yq2XnK

Music hall mashups! The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, launching on 17 Feb, explores the linguistic and cultural hybrids that Jewish immigrants created in East End music hall songs. https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ Listen out for our Cockney-Yiddish Word of the Week

Today my forthcoming book, The Postal Paths, is officially announced. It is published by Monoray on April 24 but you can pre-order on the link below. The book tells of my journey along the paths once used by rural posties - and about their very tough lives https://t.co/lRhi7OpwdD