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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The community organization is moving from its longtime North Berkeley home to a larger new facility in Oakland’s Rockridge ...