Nadia Valman

Reading, walking East London

[Nadia Valman @LondonCurious]

Zangwill's Spitalfields: my free app explores immigrant life in 1890s London https://t.co/o0IwvyI7Z4

[Nadia Valman @LondonCurious]

Come and see my collaboration with projection artist Karen Crosby, illuminating St Bartholomew’s North Wing with the ghosts of its past, Monday 10 November 6-7pm, free. Part of @BeingHumanFest
@thegentleauthor
@EngageQM

https://t.co/IomB7RKOmX

[Sarah Wise @MissSarahWise]

I'm taking part in this all-weekender family history online conference, talking about my latest book, The Undesirables. For C$50, you also get 8 other speakers including @victoriansleuth and @Workhouses
Now booking: https://t.co/JTwLlLDD3L

[Nadia Valman @LondonCurious]

Join me for a free talk on the life and work of Victorian London writer Amy Levy. Islington Town Hall, Weds 8 October 6.30pm

https://t.co/aDDlyTP77I

[Tower Hamlets Archives @LBTHArchives]

05/07/25, 6-7.30pm What is Cockney Yiddish?
Come and be entertained with Cockney Yiddish natter, stories and songs which tell of what happened to language, culture and religion in the East End with historians Vivi Lachs and Nadia Valman.

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

What is this haunting melody? Who is the Gramophone Man of Petticoat Lane? In episode 7 of the Cockney Yiddish Podcast we investigate.

https://t.co/TG9eAGG9wG

@JewishMuseumLDN @LBTHArchives @EngageQM @MichaelRosenYes @susannahclapp @RSHistCentre

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

In Episode 2 of this new podcast, Nadia and Vivi discuss women’s role in political protest among the Yiddish-speaking immigrant population of London’s East End with historians @LiveseyRuth and @sarahrglynn
@Amanda_Vickery @MissSarahWise @annsplaining

https://t.co/MTGVxZQFOT

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

What happened when east European Jewish immigrants met Cockney culture in London’s Victorian East End? The Cockney Yiddish Music Hall! Find out more in Episode 3, out now.

https://t.co/3QkqlMD8Tu

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

New podcast! What impact did Victorian Jewish migrants have on spoken English? Does the story of MLE help us understand? How was Yiddish inflected by Cockney culture? A Victorian Yiddish music hall song sparks discussion in Ep 1
@__BAAL @NATEfeed

https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Episode 2 of our new podcast looks at political organising in the Yiddish-speaking immigrant community of early 20C London with historians Prof Ruth Livesey on protest poetry and Dr Sarah Glynn on the Workers’ Circle
@workerscircle @jdforward

https://t.co/VVuVhelTpD

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

According to @londonist, The Cockney Yiddish podcast celebrates the legacy of London Yiddish culture ‘with verve, wit, perception and even a little chutzpah’. Listen now on Spotify, Acast etc and check out https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ for bonus material

https://t.co/Tzw6ZD6Mlv

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

It’s 1889 and Morris Winchevsky, East End Yiddish poet, imagines inspiring London workers with revolutionary fire. We discuss his protest anthems and poetry on The Cockney Yiddish Podcast ep.2 https://t.co/Kb93chI6vx
@JewishSocialist @davidschneider

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Episode 2, ‘Protest and Politics’ is out! Discover the ideas, writing and songs of Yiddish-speaking East Enders striving for a fairer world with Cockney comrades.
@JewishMuseumLDN
@QMUL_HSS
@LBTHArchives

https://t.co/5cBwoiKnWX

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Read all about Cockney Yiddish in today’s Spitalfields Life blog — and look at this beautiful Alfred Daniels painting!
https://t.co/zNtlxlWs7B

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Discover a lttle-known world of Yiddish song and story in this new podcast exploring Yiddish popular culture in the East End of London. Hosted by Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs.
@jdforward @yivoinstitute @ParkesInstitute

https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Episode 1 is out today! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://t.co/VVuVhelTpD

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

We were absolutely thrilled to have @MMargolyes as our guest reader bringing to life Yiddish stories of east London in English translation. Hear her remarkable vocal and emotional range on the #CockneyYiddishPodcast, launching tomorrow https://t.co/VVuVhelTpD

[Tower Hamlets Archives @LBTHArchives]

500 Years of Irish women in Tower Hamlets
Saturday 15 March, 2-4pm
A canter through 500 years of herstory will explore Irish woman living in the sixteenth-century Tower of London to the twentieth-century.
https://t.co/srASJ0jmXe

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

In #CockneyYiddishPodcast Nadia and Vivi go for a historical amble around the old Jewish East End, discussing words, songs, writers, streets. Listen from 17 Feb. More on our website https://t.co/wyKeLuLVJJ ⁦@LBTHArchives⁩ ⁦@LondonHistorian⁩ ⁦@EngageQM⁩

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Objects from the Cockney Jewish past are currently on display ⁦@JewishMuseumLDN⁩ pop up in Hampstead to coincide with the #CockneyYiddishPodcast including this bilingual English/Yiddish publication from the Workers’ Circle friendly society.
⁦@JewishHtgEurope⁩

[The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @CockneyYiddish]

Israel Zangwill, bestselling Victorian novelist, self-styled ‘Cockney Jew’, also unusual in his time for lamenting loss of mothertongue in 2nd generation immigrants. #CockneyYiddishPodcast explores how he & other London writers grappled with the decline of Yiddish
@CheyetteBryan