Name: Vivi Lachs in conversation with Alan Dein: East End Jews
Start: 2025-11-23T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-23T17:00:00+00:00
Location: London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Town Hall

Vivi Lachs in conversation with Alan Dein: East End Jews

East End Jews offers an unparalleled view into the life, labour, politics and joys of London's Jewish East End, from its heyday in the 1890s
About this Event

East End Jews offers an unparalleled view into the life, labour, politics and joys of London's Jewish East End, from its heyday in the 1890s until the 1950s. Drawing from the light feuilleton column in the London Yiddish press, these deceptively accessible, often humorous urban sketches capture incisive and sometimes cheeky encounters with challenges and debates of the time.

Vivi Lachs is a historian, Yiddish translator and singer. Her books Whitechapel Noise, London Yiddishtown and East End Jews explore Jewish history through popular culture. She co-hosts the Cockney Yiddish Podcast, runs the Great Yiddish Parade and sings with the bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes.

Vivi will be in conversation with Alan Dein, an Oral Historian and Radio documentary presenter.