His great subject was London’s East End, the Jewish immigrant enclave where he was born in 1926 to Dutch-Jewish parents. His publisher, David Paul, described Kops as “the last of the ...

A new podcast recalls the history, culture and influence of the Yiddish East End. Nosh, schmooze, chutzpah... words that many of us still use today. They come from Yiddish, a Jewish language ...

Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research (New York: Schocken Books, 1968). William J. Fishman, East End Jewish Radicals: 1875–1914 (London: Duckworth, 1975); J. Green, A Social History of the ...

Nadia Valman is Professor of Urban Literature in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the literature of east London, and she has recently published ...

This map illustrates the density of the Jewish population in London's East End in 1899, but by focusing on a narrow area of the capital and using heavily nuanced colour-coding, it contrives to be ...

However, this perspective has limited our understanding of Jewish culture and social change in modern London. This project seeks instead to attend to the voices of working-class and lower middle-class ...

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final ... Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their ...