Change and Decline in London's Jewish East End: The Yiddish Sketches of Katie Brown

• Published in: Shofar (West Lafayette, Ind.) Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 73 - 99
• Main Author: Lachs, Vivi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: West Lafayette Purdue University Press 2024
• Subjects: Actors; Children; Community; Cultural factors; Culture; Decades; Families & family life; Females; Hebrew language; Immigrants; Immigration; Jewish culture; Jewish life & ethics; Jewish people; Political factors; Theater; World War II; Writers; Yiddish language; England; United Kingdom > UK; Eastern Europe; North America

The British Yiddish writer Katie Brown wrote humorous stories and sketches for the London Yiddish newspapers Di post (The Post) in the 1930s and Di tsayt (The Times) in the 1940s. The stories, set in London's Jewish East End, concern the day-to-day effects of immigration, poverty, and Jewish cu...