And we are delighted that we scooped up a Bronze at the British Podcast Awards! cockneyyiddish.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @josephfinlay.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @c19qmul.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. Hear about this and more on the CYP’s brilliant ‘Protest & Politics’ episode open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib... @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @london.gov.uk @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @clivesg.bsky.social

2. Forverts! Politics and protest

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We’re thrilled to be shortlisted for the British Podcast Awards in both the Arts and Culture category and in the Editor’s Choice category! @engageqm.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @josephfinlay.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social

“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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My blogpost on my work on Claude McKay for the @liminalwater.bsky.social project liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...

New episode on this year's @yorktoolkit.bsky.social is in the can and coming soon! It will feature a lot on the Generations of London English project, including updated work on MLE. Coming soon.

Working women, suffering women. Women who languish at home and in the factory. Why are you standing on the sidelines? Why aren’t you helping build the temple of freedom, of human happiness? Help us carry the red banner forward, through the storm, through dark nights! youtu.be/uQiiRVuutNk?...

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Today we played with The Great Yiddish Parade at the gigantic @togetheralliance.bsky.social march in London against the far right.

Sydney Carter's classic anti-war song, performed by Lady Maisery, has powerful contemporary resonance. They sing it in Petworth Park in our new episode, out now. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/3b366e

Delighted to see these podcasts/ programmes make the @newyorkfestivals.bsky.social Radio Awards shortlists. I had an absolute blast making them: @folkonfoot.com Goblin Band in the City of London; The Song Detectorists for BBC R3 & @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social. Minuscule teams but a MIGHTY ensemble.

Coming soon! A new episode of The Cickney Yiddish podcast…

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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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is so disgusting.

Huge congratulations to our brilliant producer @natalie-steed.bsky.social who’s been Gold-awarded at the #apas for her work on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @qmulhss.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @rshc.bsky.social

Natalie Steed@natalie-steed.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Absolutely thrilled to be awarded Gold in the Branded Content Category at the #apas for the splendid @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social Thank you to Prof Nadia Valman &Dr Vivi Lachs for trusting me with their ideas. What a joy!

Thrilled to announce our second award of the season: Lovies Award: Best Indie Podcast Silver! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @muktijaincampion.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Hooray for @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social The Cockney Yiddish Podcast! We won Silver for Best Independent Podcast in The Lovie Awards @qmul.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Cockney Yiddish podcast team for this great achievement! If you want to read more about the podcast before (or after) having a listen, I recommend this interview @ingeveb.bsky.social. ingeveb.org/blog/the-coc...

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast@cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast wins Best Culture Podcast 2025 in the Independent Podcadt Awards. Thank you to everyone who made this possible especially our genius producer Natalie Steed @rhubarbrhubarb.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast wins Best Culture Podcast 2025 in the Independent Podcadt Awards. Thank you to everyone who made this possible especially our genius producer Natalie Steed @rhubarbrhubarb.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social

Join Vivi and Nadia for an evening of music, words, food and discussion. The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Live - Rich Mix, Shoreditch, 11 Nov 6.15pm. Free, booking essential www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/cockn... @engageqm.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Live!

Join Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast for a lively evening of music, song, words and discussion about the mixed languages of London. Nadia and Vivi host an exploration of how...

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Thrilled to announce that the #CockneyYiddishPodcast has been shortlisted for the independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... in the History and the Culture categories @engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @misssarahwise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...

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Read about Cockney Yiddish in our article in The Conversation, published today. theconversation.com/cockney-yidd...

Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End

For a younger generation of secular Jews, Yiddish is acquiring a new appeal.

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Celebrate International Workers’ Day with The Cockney Yiddish Podcast’s rousing episode on Politics and Protest in London’s East End shows.acast.com/the-cockney-... @trillingual.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @journeytojustice.bsky.social

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:

Just finished listening to the last episode of the series of the fantastic "The Cockney Yiddish Podcast" created by historians Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs. What a treat! Already looking forward to the next series and more history, more Yiddish, more music and more gripping stories from Whitechapel.

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

Stories of a forgotten London subculture

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If you were intrigued by the songs and stories of Petticoat Lane in Episode 7 open.spotify.com/episode/2xxs... you can find out more in a new tour by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

7. The mystery of Solomon Levy

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 2y ago

THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF PETTICOAT LANE is launching on Saturday 3rd May. Experience the drama of the market and meet Geoffrey Chaucer, Betty Levi, Tubby Isaacs, Franceskka Abimbola, Jeremy Bentham, Fred the Chestnut Seller and the Pet Shop Boys. www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

Big podcast recommend for the fascinating @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social. Shifting language, radical protest, saucy new lives, songs and stories (read wonderfully by Miriam Margolyes & Nick Cassenbaum): and that's just the first 2 episodes. What's not to love?

Lovely closing party for @migrationmuseum.org as it migrates from its Lewisham shopping mall home after 5 yrs. Congratulations on all the amazing exhibitions creative collaborations, opening hearts & minds to the centrality of migration to our national story. Can't wait to see your next incarnation.

Thank you to the AHRC and @ukri.org for supporting our impact and engagement project The Cockney Yiddish Podcast which has brought our research on a forgotten London subculture and its music, literature and social life to more than 5k listeners in its first month. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

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Stories of a Forgotten London Subculture

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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 …

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast@cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 2y ago

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-...