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Whitechapel noise : Jewish immigrant life in Yiddish song and verse, London 1884-1914 / Vivi Lachs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, c2018Description: xvii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814344880
  • 0814344887
  • 9780814343555
  • 0814343554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 942.1081 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.E55 L66425 2018
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
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.
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"-- Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index.

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.

"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"-- Publisher's website.

Also issued online.

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