“London”
Texts & Translation
די טויבן פֿון סקװער
The Birds of the Square
Sholem Asch
Translation by Sima Beeri and Barry Burland
Sholem Asch describes two Jewish immigrants finding a way to make a living on their own terms, as streetwalkers in London
Feb 08, 2026
Review
Review of East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press, edited and translated by Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin
Daniel Soyer
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
Interview
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
Rachel Gordan, Vivi Lachs and Nadia Valman
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the unknown Yiddish popular culture of London's East End through an array of newly discovered stories and songs from the 1880s to the 1950s.
May 27, 2025
Interview
Reviving Yiddish Theater in London and Recovering Female Playwrights: An Interview with Sonia Gollance
Tamara Gleason Freidberg and Sonia Gollance
Tamara Gleason Friedberg sat down with Sonia Gollance in Summer 2024 to discuss Yiddish theater in London, her translation of Tea Arciszewska's Miryeml, and what comes next.
Nov 26, 2024
Blog
A.N. Stencl (1897–1983)
Rachel Lichtenstein
My search for Stencl over the years has taken me across the globe.
Nov 10, 2024
Texts & Translation
באַנקראָט
Bankrupt
Katie Brown
Translation by Vivi Lachs
Vivi Lachs translates Katie Brown's Bankrot, a family drama set in London's East End.
Apr 18, 2023
Review
Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott
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