Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 by Vivi Lachs New Year and A Contract With God

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Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 by Vivi Lachs New Year and A Contract With GodListen to our podcast with author Vivi Lachs here. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884 1914 by Vivi Lachs positions London's Yiddish popular culture in historical perspective within Anglo Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music hall culture,