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Whitechapel noise : Jewish immigrant life in Yiddish song and verse, London 1884-1914
- Title
- Whitechapel noise : Jewish immigrant life in Yiddish song and verse, London 1884-1914 / Vivi Lachs.
- Author
- Lachs, Vivi, 1962-
- Publication
- Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wayne State University. Press, publisher.
- Description
- 331 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 by Vivi Lachs positions London's Yiddish popular culture in historical perspective within Anglo-Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music-hall culture, and shows its relationship to the transnational Yiddish-speaking world. Layers of cultural references in the Yiddish texts are closely analyzed and quoted to draw out the complex yet intimate histories they contain, offering new perspectives on Anglo-Jewish historiography in three main areas: politics, sex, and religion"--
- Alternative Title
- Jewish immigrant life in Yiddish song and verse, London 1884-1914
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Jews > England > London > Music > History and criticism
- Songs, Yiddish > England > London > 19th century > History and criticism
- Songs, Yiddish > England > London > 20th century > History and criticism
- Jews > England > London > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Jews > England > London > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Songs, Yiddish
- Jews > Social life and customs
- Jews > Music
- Jewish diaspora
- Jews
- Jews > England > London > Social life and customs
- Yiddish literature > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Yiddish newspapers > England > London > History
- Songs, Yiddish
- Jewish socialists > England > London > History
- England > London
- England > London > Whitechapel
- Whitechapel (London, England) > History > 19th century
- Whitechapel (London, England) > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-308) and index.
- Contents
- Immigrant labor, political activism, and socialist poetry -- London Yiddish musical-hall culture -- The transnational scope -- Debates and ballads -- Making socialist activists -- Transforming courtship -- Marriage, lodgers, and transgressive sex -- Religion as a socialist tool -- Religion updated and improved.
- ISBN
- 9780814343555
- 0814343554
- 9780814344880
- 0814344887
- 9780814343562 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017960708
- 40028233146
- OCLC
- on1001335449
- 1001335449
- SCSB-14404650
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library