The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

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Stories of a forgotten London subculture with Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs. cockneyyiddish.org Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. BEST CULTURE PODCAST, Independent Podcast Awards 2025 BEST INDIE PODCAST, Silver Lovies Award 2025

“Language diversity is one of our most potent weapons against the diminishment of deep knowledge, the homogenization of culture, the erasure of history, and even some of our health crises.” On the numerous minority languages in danger of becoming extinct.

The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event

Upstairs, a language is dying. Nonna is in bed—al lett—and we are in the living room, waiting for the swelling in her legs—i gamb’—to go down. Mum and I rushed here from the other side of London wh…

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I would ordinarily put this in the jewsletter but it's before the next edition, so here you go: Radical Yiddish Song For This Moment: Anti-Authoritarian Yiddish Sing Along with DJ Chaia from the Workers Circle www.circle.org/events/radic...

Radical Yiddish Song For This Moment: Anti-Authoritarian Yiddish Sing Along with DJ Chaia — The Workers Circle

Want to learn about revolutionary Yiddish music? Join DJ Chaia and Daniel Carkner for a sing-along meets historical adventure.

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a couple of years ago I wrote a nifty little article about der driter seder, the third seder, a tradition I encountered in my earliest days as a performer of Yiddish, here at the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors' Club in the East Village in 2012:

Anthony Russell performing in front a banner emblazoned with the words, "Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors' Club", East Village, 2012

I LOVED making this episode about the gramophone man of Petticoat Lane. Once you start looking he’s everywhere … photos, newspapers, films, books and in the songs and memories of the people who grew up in the East End …

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What is this haunting melody? Who is the Gramophone Man of Petticoat Lane? In episode 7 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast we investigate. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...