The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

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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.

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...

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.

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
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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Live! Join Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast (Winner of the 2025 Best Culture podcast in the Independent Podcast Awards) for a lively evening of music, song, words and discussion ab...

Join us live at Rich Mix Shoreditch, Tuesday 11 Nov 6.15. Free. Also free food. Booking essential

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Thrilled to announce our second award of the season: Lovies Award: Best Indie Podcast Silver!

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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.

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Thank you, Sonia! We’re delighted to be sharing our research on East End culture with so many new listeners.

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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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...

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...

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The People's Lovie Awards needs YOU I just voted for this finalist to win a People's Lovie Awards. You should too.

And also shortlisted for The Lovie Awards in the Best Indie Podcast category. Help us win the People’s Award by voting for us here vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting...

Thrilled to announce that the #CockneyYiddishPodcast has been shortlisted for the independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... in the History and the Culture categories
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2. Forverts! Politics and protest

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
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Hello Yiddishists! We are hoping to make some new Yiddish episodes and would love your input. What would you like to hear about? What would you like more of?

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.

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

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:

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Stories of a forgotten London subculture

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.

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

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.

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast Stories of a Forgotten London Subculture

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.

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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 …

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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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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.

4. Oy! Who are you laughing at? | The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

If you’ve been enjoying our Cockney Yiddish Word of the Week, check out our discussion of Cockney Yiddish rhyming slang in Episode 4!

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