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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“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.

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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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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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

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Walking the past in riverine East London - Liminalwater

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Lexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.

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Yiddish Praxis (Rokhl K) @rokhl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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

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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 28/03/2026

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

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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.

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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...

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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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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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.

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast | In geveb

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 18

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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:

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BerlinCompanion @berlincompanion.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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.

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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

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David Jays @mrdavidjays.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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?

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Mukti Jain Campion @muktijaincampion.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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.

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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-...

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

In The Cockney Yiddish podcast we showcase the work of London Yiddish writers including Ella Zilberg and Katie Brown. Hear their writing read by Miriam Margolyes and find out more about them on our website cockneyyiddish.org where you can also see and hear it in the original Yiddish.

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In Ep 6 we discuss migrant food (specifically gefilte fish) and the East End & talk to Aditi Anand of the @migrationmuseum.org about the sweet and bitter memories that food can provoke. open.spotify.com/episode/0uug... @bibliocook.bsky.social @cardamomaddict.bsky.social @faithkramer.bsky.social

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Board of Deputies of British Jews didn't become shills for assorted imperialists and white supremacists overnight - they've always been like that! Listen to this fantastic podcast for the lowdown on how organised working class Jews gave the BoD two fingers, a tradition well worth honouring today

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Whitechapel, my Whitechapel! In Episode 6 of the pod we look at misty-eyed memories of the Jewish East End in Yiddish and English and ask: what does nostalgia really mean? Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0uug...

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Radical Jewish activism has a long history in London, stretching back to the 1890s when Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jews took to the streets, rejecting the authority of community leaders. We discuss in Ep. 2. @blbalthaser.bsky.social @trillingual.bsky.social @self.agency @clivesg.bsky.social

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 13/03/2025

Hank Sapoznik, a key figure in the klezmer revival, is releasing a new guide to the landscape of historical Yiddish New York. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

With “a winning mix of exuberance and scholarship”, “verve, wit, perception and even a little chutzpah” the Cockney Yiddish Podcast celebrates the rich history and legacy of London’s East End Yiddish-language culture. Prof Nadia Valman & Dr Vivi Lachs of @qmul.ac.uk write and present. #skystorians

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yiddishists! This week we have a bonus episode for you, ENTIRELY IN YIDDISH! Ep 5 includes London Yiddish writer Katie Brown, discussion about negotiating Khanike and Krismes and a old street song about East End markets. English transcript available on our website. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Aaron Nager, London Yiddish comedian, wrote this music hall song in 1903 about a feisty East End woman living it up in the West End. In Episode 4 shows.acast.com/the-cockney-... we explore Cockney Yiddish comedy in fiction and music with special guest @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Pack your picnic, practise your heckles and come with us to the Yiddish theatre! Ep 3 explores East End Yiddish theatre & music hall from the popular theatre with its cheap songs and audience misbehaviour to highbrow performances of Shakespeare and opera in Yiddish. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Pavilion, Whitechapel, was a key venue in London’s pre-war Yiddish theatre scene. Explore edgy music hall songs, Shakespeare in Yiddish & grand opera on the Commercial Rd in Ep 3 of the cockneyyiddish.org Podcast @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Writer and comedian @davidschneider.bsky.social brings his irrepressible energy to Episode 3 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast. He fizzes and fulminates as a hapless member of the audience in an East End Yiddish theatre of the 1930s. cockneyyiddish.org.

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Playbills from the East End Yiddish theatres of yore. On display now at the Jewish Museum London pop-up in Hampstead, a fascinating complement to Episode 3 of The cockneyyiddish.org Podcast @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @museumsandhetitage.com

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s the Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Listen to this jaunty song about Jewish immigrants and the East End police, hear about the antics of the unruly audiences and pause for a more highbrow moment as actor @davidschneider.bsky.social performs Shakespeare in Yiddish. All in Episode 3, out now!

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

What happened when east European Jewish immigrants met Cockney culture in London’s Victorian East End? The Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Find out more in Episode 3, out now. shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

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