my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Huge congratulations to our brilliant producer @natalie-steed.bsky.social who’s been Gold-awarded at the #apas for her work on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @qmulhss.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @rshc.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce our second award of the season: Lovies Award: Best Indie Podcast Silver! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @muktijaincampion.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Hooray for @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social The Cockney Yiddish Podcast! We won Silver for Best Independent Podcast in The Lovie Awards @qmul.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Cockney Yiddish podcast team for this great achievement! If you want to read more about the podcast before (or after) having a listen, I recommend this interview @ingeveb.bsky.social. ingeveb.org/blog/the-coc...

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast wins Best Culture Podcast 2025 in the Independent Podcadt Awards. Thank you to everyone who made this possible especially our genius producer Natalie Steed @rhubarbrhubarb.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social

Join Vivi and Nadia for an evening of music, words, food and discussion. The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Live - Rich Mix, Shoreditch, 11 Nov 6.15pm. Free, booking essential www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/cockn... @engageqm.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce that the #CockneyYiddishPodcast has been shortlisted for the independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... in the History and the Culture categories @engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @misssarahwise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...

Read about Cockney Yiddish in our article in The Conversation, published today. theconversation.com/cockney-yidd...

Celebrate International Workers’ Day with The Cockney Yiddish Podcast’s rousing episode on Politics and Protest in London’s East End shows.acast.com/the-cockney-... @trillingual.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @journeytojustice.bsky.social

a couple of years ago I wrote a nifty little article about der driter seder, the third seder, a tradition I encountered in my earliest days as a performer of Yiddish, here at the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors' Club in the East Village in 2012:

Just finished listening to the last episode of the series of the fantastic "The Cockney Yiddish Podcast" created by historians Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs. What a treat! Already looking forward to the next series and more history, more Yiddish, more music and more gripping stories from Whitechapel.

If you were intrigued by the songs and stories of Petticoat Lane in Episode 7 open.spotify.com/episode/2xxs... you can find out more in a new tour by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Big podcast recommend for the fascinating @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social. Shifting language, radical protest, saucy new lives, songs and stories (read wonderfully by Miriam Margolyes & Nick Cassenbaum): and that's just the first 2 episodes. What's not to love?

Lovely closing party for @migrationmuseum.org as it migrates from its Lewisham shopping mall home after 5 yrs. Congratulations on all the amazing exhibitions creative collaborations, opening hearts & minds to the centrality of migration to our national story. Can't wait to see your next incarnation.

Thank you to the AHRC and @ukri.org for supporting our impact and engagement project The Cockney Yiddish Podcast which has brought our research on a forgotten London subculture and its music, literature and social life to more than 5k listeners in its first month. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

I LOVED making this episode about the gramophone man of Petticoat Lane. Once you start looking he’s everywhere … photos, newspapers, films, books and in the songs and memories of the people who grew up in the East End …

What is this haunting melody? Who is the Gramophone Man of Petticoat Lane? In episode 7 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast we investigate. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

In The Cockney Yiddish podcast we showcase the work of London Yiddish writers including Ella Zilberg and Katie Brown. Hear their writing read by Miriam Margolyes and find out more about them on our website cockneyyiddish.org where you can also see and hear it in the original Yiddish.

If you’ve been enjoying our Cockney Yiddish Word of the Week, check out our discussion of Cockney Yiddish rhyming slang in Episode 4! @tonythorne007.bsky.social @susiedent.com @misterslang.bsky.social @mashedradish.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

In Ep 6 we discuss migrant food (specifically gefilte fish) and the East End & talk to Aditi Anand of the @migrationmuseum.org about the sweet and bitter memories that food can provoke. open.spotify.com/episode/0uug... @bibliocook.bsky.social @cardamomaddict.bsky.social @faithkramer.bsky.social

Meshugeneh in E Pellicci’s caff, a shmeiss in the shvitz at the New Docklands Steam Baths? @alephross.bsky.social reviews @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social for @vashtimedia.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/cockney-yidd... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @nickcassenbaum.bsky.social

The Board of Deputies of British Jews didn't become shills for assorted imperialists and white supremacists overnight - they've always been like that! Listen to this fantastic podcast for the lowdown on how organised working class Jews gave the BoD two fingers, a tradition well worth honouring today

Whitechapel, my Whitechapel! In Episode 6 of the pod we look at misty-eyed memories of the Jewish East End in Yiddish and English and ask: what does nostalgia really mean? Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0uug...

Radical Jewish activism has a long history in London, stretching back to the 1890s when Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jews took to the streets, rejecting the authority of community leaders. We discuss in Ep. 2. @blbalthaser.bsky.social @trillingual.bsky.social @self.agency @clivesg.bsky.social

Hank Sapoznik, a key figure in the klezmer revival, is releasing a new guide to the landscape of historical Yiddish New York. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

With “a winning mix of exuberance and scholarship”, “verve, wit, perception and even a little chutzpah” the Cockney Yiddish Podcast celebrates the rich history and legacy of London’s East End Yiddish-language culture. Prof Nadia Valman & Dr Vivi Lachs of @qmul.ac.uk write and present. #skystorians

In Episode 4 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social tells us about how growing up with #Yiddish words at Yiddish-ish words shaped his imagination as a writer @lexispodcast.bsky.social @mashedradish.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social @anoushka-ar.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @bengidley.bsky.social

Yiddishists! This week we have a bonus episode for you, ENTIRELY IN YIDDISH! Ep 5 includes London Yiddish writer Katie Brown, discussion about negotiating Khanike and Krismes and a old street song about East End markets. English transcript available on our website. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

Aaron Nager, London Yiddish comedian, wrote this music hall song in 1903 about a feisty East End woman living it up in the West End. In Episode 4 shows.acast.com/the-cockney-... we explore Cockney Yiddish comedy in fiction and music with special guest @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Pack your picnic, practise your heckles and come with us to the Yiddish theatre! Ep 3 explores East End Yiddish theatre & music hall from the popular theatre with its cheap songs and audience misbehaviour to highbrow performances of Shakespeare and opera in Yiddish. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

The Pavilion, Whitechapel, was a key venue in London’s pre-war Yiddish theatre scene. Explore edgy music hall songs, Shakespeare in Yiddish & grand opera on the Commercial Rd in Ep 3 of the cockneyyiddish.org Podcast @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social

Writer and comedian @davidschneider.bsky.social brings his irrepressible energy to Episode 3 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast. He fizzes and fulminates as a hapless member of the audience in an East End Yiddish theatre of the 1930s. cockneyyiddish.org.

Playbills from the East End Yiddish theatres of yore. On display now at the Jewish Museum London pop-up in Hampstead, a fascinating complement to Episode 3 of The cockneyyiddish.org Podcast @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @museumsandhetitage.com

It’s the Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Listen to this jaunty song about Jewish immigrants and the East End police, hear about the antics of the unruly audiences and pause for a more highbrow moment as actor @davidschneider.bsky.social performs Shakespeare in Yiddish. All in Episode 3, out now!

What happened when east European Jewish immigrants met Cockney culture in London’s Victorian East End? The Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Find out more in Episode 3, out now. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

Thank you to the Oxford Centre for Life Writing which welcomed us last year to speak on radical Jewish women of the East End. Hear more about women’s cross-community activism in the 1930s in Ep 2 of our new podcast! @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social @elerianona.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

An opportune time to visit the Cable St Mural. “The girls all went out with pepper pots in their coat pockets to throw pepper into the faces of the fascists. […] They wanted to stand shoulder to shoulder with the dockers – working people the same as they all were, and socialists”. shorturl.at/0F7Ie

East London stood up to fascism at the Battle of #CableStreet 1936 and in Ep 2 we discuss the Victorian roots of cross-community solidarity in the East End @josephfinlay.bsky.social @adamlenson.bsky.social @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social @robertsaunders.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...

Diasporists! Tune in to our discussion of radical Jewish diasporist politics in Victorian London and sing along to historic solidarity anthems sung on the streets of east London @jewdas.org @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social @clivesg.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

Episode 2 of our new podcast looks at radical politics in the Yiddish-speaking immigrant community of Victorian London with historians Prof Ruth Livesey and Dr Sarah Glynn (Includes a Cockney-Yiddish revolutionary singalong) @historywo.bsky.social @rshc.bsky.social @natashawalter.bsky.social

This is well worth a listen. The historical dimensions are fascinating and the parallels to MLE are quite pertinent to current language study. It's also a lot of fun!

With “a winning mix of exuberance and scholarship”, “verve, wit, perception and even a little chutzpah” the Cockney Yiddish Podcast celebrates the rich history and legacy of London’s East End Yiddish-language culture. Lovely review from @londonist.com ... londonist.com/london/yiddi...

It’s 1889 and Morris Winchevsky, East End Yiddish poet, imagines inspiring London workers with revolutionary fire. We discuss his protest anthems and poetry on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast ep.2 pod.fo/e/2b140b @victorianlondon.bsky.social @nickcassenbaum.bsky.social @jfrejnyc.bsky.social

Tomorrow!

As Guli Dolev-Hashiloni writes, the new ARD mini-series Die Zweiflers (The Zweiflers), a German TV show, depicts the involvement of Jewish people in the red-light district in post-Holocaust Frankfurt, and demonstrates their usage of Yiddish as it shifts over generations. https://buff.ly/41vLMNt

Episode 2, ‘Protest and Politics’ is out! Discover the ideas, writing and songs of Yiddish-speaking East Enders striving for a fairer world with Cockney comrades. open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...