Reviews
Review
Review of East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press, edited and translated by Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin
The well-translated articles make for entertaining, and often moving, reading. But they also serve as an introduction to the social and cultural history of life in the Jewish East End.
Sep 10, 2025
Review
Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott reviews Gill Tofell’s Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain and Alan Dein’s Music is the most beautiful language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End 1920s-1950s.
May 23, 2019