The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

A culture podcast from Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs
Website: https://cockneyyiddish.org

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.

Go to our website for more information about the music and texts we discuss.

Best Culture Podcast, Independent Podcast Awards 2025

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast is written and presented by Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs



Produced by Natalie Steed at Rhubarb Rhubarb for Queen Mary University of London Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Grant reference AH/Z505614/1.



Big thanks to: Adam Corsini at the Jewish Museum London; Tamsin Bookey and Sanjida Alam at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives; Ru Dannreuther, Silke Boettcher, Kaptan Miah and Olivia Warren at Queen Mary University of London; Ashraf Al-Hawrani, the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, London, the Yiddish Sof-Vokh.



Podcast image: © Jeremy Richardson.

Featured music: Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes.

Translations: Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin.

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