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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 linktr.ee/postalpaths

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. cockneyyiddish.org Listen out for our Cockney-Yiddish Word of the Week

We loved talking to Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 about his family’s use of Yiddish, probably-Yiddish and maybe-Yiddish words in Episode 4 of The Cockney Yiddish Podcast michaelrosen.co.uk/portfolio/rose…

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

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 Prof Bryan Cheyette 💙💛

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 cockneyyiddish.org ⁦Tower Hamlets Archives⁩ ⁦London Historians⁩ ⁦Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement⁩

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. orlo.uk/qrYMZ

We were absolutely thrilled to have Miriam Margolyes OBE 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 shows.acast.com/the-cockney-yi…

Episode 1 is out today! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at shows.acast.com/the-cockney-yi…

Read all about Cockney Yiddish in today’s Spitalfields Life blog — and look at this beautiful Alfred Daniels painting! spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/17/coc…

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. The Forward The YIVO Institute Parkes Institute cockneyyiddish.org

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: British Association for Applied Linguistics National Association for the Teaching of English cockneyyiddish.org

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. Jewish Museum London Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Tower Hamlets Archives open.spotify.com/episode/5XiboJ…

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 pod.fo/e/2b140b Jewish Socialist David Schneider

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 cockneyyiddish.org for bonus material londonist.com/london/yiddish…

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 The Workers Circle The Forward shows.acast.com/the-cockney-yi…

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 Ruth Livesey and Sarah Glynn Professor Amanda Vickery Sarah Wise Annie / חנה-בײלע open.spotify.com/episode/5XiboJ…

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. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-yi…

What is this haunting melody? Who is the Gramophone Man of Petticoat Lane? In episode 7 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast we investigate. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-yi… Jewish Museum London Tower Hamlets Archives Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Susannah Clapp RaphaelSamuelHistCen

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.