The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
@cockneyyiddish.bsky.social
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
cockneyyiddish.org
Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
BEST CULTURE PODCAST, Independent Podcast Awards 2025
BEST INDIE PODCAST, Silver
Lovies Award 2025
Pinned
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
@jewishhistorical.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@muktijaincampion.bsky.social
@engageqm.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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
@jewishhistorical.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@muktijaincampion.bsky.social
@engageqm.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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
@jewishhistorical.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@muktijaincampion.bsky.social
@engageqm.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
Hooray for @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social The Cockney Yiddish Podcast! We won Silver for Best Independent Podcast in The Lovie Awards @qmul.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Hooray for @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social The Cockney Yiddish Podcast! We won Silver for Best Independent Podcast in The Lovie Awards @qmul.bsky.social
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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...
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...
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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...
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 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
@migrationmuseum.org
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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
@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
@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...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
@engageqm.bsky.social
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social
@bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
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
@engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
Independent Podcast Awards 2025 - Our 2025 Shortlist
Independent Podcast Awards 2025 - Our 2025 Shortlist
independentpodcastawards.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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
@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...
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
@misssarahwise.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...
2. Forverts! Politics and protest
open.spotify.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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...
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
@misssarahwise.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...
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.
theconversation.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Read about Cockney Yiddish in our article in The Conversation, published today. theconversation.com/cockney-yidd...
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
@trillingual.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @journeytojustice.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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
@trillingual.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @journeytojustice.bsky.social
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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:
April 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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:
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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.
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
cockneyyiddish.org
March 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
What a treat! Already looking forward to the next series and more history, more Yiddish, more music and more gripping stories from Whitechapel.
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
you can find out more in a new tour by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
you can find out more in a new tour by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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?
March 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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?
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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-...
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
Stories of a Forgotten London Subculture
shows.acast.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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-...
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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 …
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-...
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
March 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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 …
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-...
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
March 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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-...
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
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.
March 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
If you’ve been enjoying our Cockney Yiddish Word of the Week, check out our discussion of Cockney Yiddish rhyming slang in Episode 4!
@tonythorne007.bsky.social @susiedent.com @misterslang.bsky.social
@mashedradish.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
@tonythorne007.bsky.social @susiedent.com @misterslang.bsky.social
@mashedradish.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
4. Oy! Who are you laughing at? | The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
shows.acast.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you’ve been enjoying our Cockney Yiddish Word of the Week, check out our discussion of Cockney Yiddish rhyming slang in Episode 4!
@tonythorne007.bsky.social @susiedent.com @misterslang.bsky.social
@mashedradish.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
@tonythorne007.bsky.social @susiedent.com @misterslang.bsky.social
@mashedradish.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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
open.spotify.com/episode/0uug...
@bibliocook.bsky.social
@cardamomaddict.bsky.social
@faithkramer.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
open.spotify.com/episode/0uug...
@bibliocook.bsky.social
@cardamomaddict.bsky.social
@faithkramer.bsky.social
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
Meshugeneh in E Pellicci’s caff, a shmeiss in the shvitz at the New Docklands Steam Baths?
@alephross.bsky.social reviews @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social for @vashtimedia.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/cockney-yidd... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @nickcassenbaum.bsky.social
@alephross.bsky.social reviews @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social for @vashtimedia.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/cockney-yidd... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @nickcassenbaum.bsky.social
A new קינד on the podcast block
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the evolution of the diasporic language and the symbiosis necessary to its survival thus far and to its revival, today.
vashtimedia.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Meshugeneh in E Pellicci’s caff, a shmeiss in the shvitz at the New Docklands Steam Baths?
@alephross.bsky.social reviews @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social for @vashtimedia.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/cockney-yidd... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @nickcassenbaum.bsky.social
@alephross.bsky.social reviews @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social for @vashtimedia.bsky.social
vashtimedia.com/cockney-yidd... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @nickcassenbaum.bsky.social
Reposted by The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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
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
@blbalthaser.bsky.social
@trillingual.bsky.social
@self.agency
@clivesg.bsky.social
2. Forverts! Politics and protest
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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
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...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0uug...
March 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0uug...
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
@blbalthaser.bsky.social
@trillingual.bsky.social
@self.agency
@clivesg.bsky.social
2. Forverts! Politics and protest
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
@blbalthaser.bsky.social
@trillingual.bsky.social
@self.agency
@clivesg.bsky.social