Vivi Lachs

Vivi Lachs is a historian of the Jewish East End, a research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London and a Yiddish performer. She is the author of Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 (2018) and London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930-1950. She co-runs the Great Yiddish Parade and the Yiddish Open Mic Café in London and leads tours of the old Yiddish East End. She sings and records with the bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes.