TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lachs, Vivi
TI  - Whitechapel noise: Jewish immigrant life in Yiddish song and verse, London 1884-1914 
SN  - 9780814344880
AV  - DS135.E55 L66425 2018
U1  - 942.1081 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Detroit, Michigan
PB  - Wayne State University Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Jewish diaspora
KW  - London
KW  - Yiddish language
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - 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; Also issued online
N2  - "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"--
ER  -