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Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 8 Nov 2021 04:06:40
Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914

Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914"
English | ISBN: 0814344887 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB

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, and shows its relationship to the transnational Yiddish-speaking world. Layers of cultural references in the Yiddish texts are closely analyzed and quoted to draw out the complex yet intimate histories they contain, offering new perspectives on Anglo-Jewish historiography in three main areas: politics, sex, and religion.
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