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

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Yiddish culture in the two and a half decades after the Holocaust was in dynamic flux

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