Pitch Up: The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

31 January 2025 - 11 July 2025

Cockney Yiddish Podcast

ON DISPLAY AT JW3 FROM 31ST JANUARY 2025

Cockney Yiddish Podcast

   

Launching on 17th February 2025, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London, The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the unknown Yiddish popular culture of London’s East End through an array of newly discovered stories and songs from the 1880s to the 1950s. Historians Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs share their passion for the tunes and words of Jewish Londoners encountering the Cockney culture of music halls, street markets and rhyming slang.

They discover a rich landscape of music and interviews from the archives and chat about hidden histories, family stories, lost connections and real and imagined places with special guests and readers including Michael Rosen, Miriam Margolyes, Alan Dein and David Schneider. Join Nadia and Vivi on their journey and hear East London’s long forgotten songs and stories brought to new life by contemporary musicians and actors.

Our Pitch Up stalls share insights into each of the seven podcasts with associated Jewish Museum London objects and images connected to each podcast theme, including language, theatre, humour, and politics.

Visit the Cockney Yiddish website to listen to individual episodes: www.cockneyyiddish.org/