Yiddish was also the language of street protest in the Jewish East End. During the "strike fever" of 1889, when workers throughout east London were demanding better pay and working conditions, ...

1945 saw the East End's once vibrant Jewish community resettle in the suburbs and overseas. Michael Zeffertt remembers what it was like.

Bernard Kops, 97, a bard of London’s Jewish East End. Bernard Kops was one of the leading British dramatists of the second half of the 20th century, ...

Vivi Lachs is a historian of London’s Jewish East End, a Yiddishist and performer. Her book Whitechapel Noise (Wayne State University Press, 2018) draws new historical detail from Yiddish poetry and ...

Clive Bettington, chairman of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, estimates the East End’s Jewish population has fallen from more than 150,000 at its peak in the 1930s to about 2,000 today.

A Jewish writer known for his depictions of life in London’s heavily Jewish East End has died. The film version of Wolf Mankowitz’s “The Bespoke Overcoat,” which details the life of a ...

An elderly Jewish friend from London was at a gathering recently, and said someone asked: “Politically speaking, who are our friends?” Nobody had an answer, and the consensus was that Britain ...

The friendship between two men in London’s Jewish East End forms the heart of “The Bespoke Overcoat,” now playing at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice.

The oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London is holding is first communal Shabbat meal for more than 25 years. The Sandy's Row Synagogue, in the heart of the old Jewish East End, is holding the dinner ...

Yiddish was also the language of street protest in the Jewish East End. During the“strike fever” of 1889, when workers throughout east London were demanding better pay and working conditions, ...