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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
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Stories of a forgotten London subculture with Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs.
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Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.

BEST CULTURE PODCAST, Independent Podcast Awards 2025
BEST INDIE PODCAST, Silver
Lovies Award 2025
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Thrilled to announce our second award of the season: Lovies Award: Best Indie Podcast Silver!

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November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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

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October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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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-...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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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.

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March 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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
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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.

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March 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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?
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March 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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In Episode 4 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social tells us about how growing up with #Yiddish words at Yiddish-ish words shaped his imagination as a writer

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March 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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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
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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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

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March 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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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.
March 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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

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March 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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!
March 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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It’s 1889 and Morris Winchevsky, East End Yiddish poet, imagines inspiring London workers with revolutionary fire. We discuss his protest anthems and poetry on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast ep.2 pod.fo/e/2b140b

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February 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast showcases fabulous music by London bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes - where klezmer tunes meet East End music hall. Like the Yiddish language, Jewish music culture changed and adapted in London.
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February 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Episode 1 is out today! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
February 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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We were absolutely thrilled to have @miriam-margolyes.bsky.social as our guest reader bringing to life Yiddish stories of east London in English translation. Hear her remarkable vocal and emotional range on the #CockneyYiddishPodcast, launching tomorrow shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...
February 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Israel Zangwill, bestselling Victorian novelist, grew up in Spitalfields & called himself a ‘Cockney Jew’. Also unusual in his time for lamenting loss of mother tongue in 2nd generation immigrants. We explore how other London writers grappled with the decline of Yiddish in the #CockneyYiddishPodcast
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The Great Yiddish Parade, performing in London in 2024 brought to life the socialist protest songs of Victorian East End Yiddish poet Morris Winchevsky. We discuss with literary historian Prof Ruth Livesey in Ep 2.
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The Great Yiddish Parade street theatre performance, London 2024.
February 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, we listen to forgotten treasures of the Victorian East End: Yiddish musichall songs, protest anthems, urban sketches. 17/02 cockneyyiddish.org
February 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I’m reading Arthur Morrison’s novel ‘A Child of the Jago’ with my MA class today and noticing his fluency in London lowlife lingo. From at least the 1840s this included a sprinkling of Yiddish (like ‘gonof’ - thief and ‘gelt - money). Find out more in Episode 1 of The Cockney Yiddish Podcast
February 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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In The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Vivi Lachs and Nadia Valman share newly discovered stories of London’s East End. Launching on 17 February
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February 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Vivi Lachs and Nadia Valman have been talking about Jewish East End culture for years. We share some our conversations in The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, coming on 17 February
February 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM