London: The Modern Babylon
It’s a long film, but several sections of Jewish interest here. A link to the full film.
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Whitechapel Noise: Sex, Politics, and Religion in London’s Pre-World War I Yiddish Lyrics – A Singing Talk by Vivi Lachs
Happening this Sunday (October 21) in Brookline Whitechapel Noise: Sex, Politics, Gand Religion in London’s Pre-World War I Yiddish Lyrics – A Singing Talk by Vivi Lachs Sunday, Oct 21, 2018 4:00 pm 1762 Beacon St. Brookline, MA 02445 http://circleboston.org/calendar/whitechapel-noise-sex-politics-and-religion-london%E2%80%99s-pre-world-war-i-yiddish-lyrics-singing
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Immigration and Emigration:The world in a city–East End Jews
East End Jews In the late-19th Century, the church at the corner of Brick Lane became a synagogue, as thousands of Jews moved into Spitalfields in the Huguenots’s wake. More than 2 million Jews left Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914, prompted by economic hardship and increasingly ferocious persecution. Following the assassination of Tsar Alexander…
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CFP: The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures
CFP for a Symposium, co-sponsored by the AHRC BJ:CC Network (Bangor University and the University of Winchester) and ‘Identities’ at the University of Reading, to be held at the University of Reading on 4th November, 2016: Deadline for submissions: Saturday, October 1, 2016 The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures Over the past…
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O Dreamland
A documentary film written and directed by Lindsay Anderson in 1953. It looks at the Dreamland Fun Fair in Margate that relates to Bernard Kops’ play and novel On Margate Sands. Click on the images below or here to view the whole film. https://youtu.be/LLlKR1x1oWY https://youtu.be/WwEMnLrVHkA
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Newsreel Footage of the Battle of Cable Street
I came across this as I was writing about Bernard Kops’ East End plays.
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Which is the Merchant Here?
Look out for Which is the Merchant Here? On the Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender by Julie Mell.
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Had to Point this out!
Check out @Durf’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Durf/status/602785858836566016?s=09
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In Praise of Whitechapel Library
Kops’ poem and stories of the university of the East End.
