In conversation with Yiddish literature scholar Dov Ber Kotlerman

In conversation with Yiddish literature scholar Dov Ber Kotlerman

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Origins of Cockney Yiddish in the East End

In the old East End, two communities seen as insular rubbed shoulders and mixed language to produce what we can only call Cockney Yiddish You may have heard of Cockney and you may have heard of Yiddish, but have you heard of Cockney Yiddish? That’s the term Queen Mary University of London professors Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs have given to the hybrid mix of languages that developed during the mass migration of Eastern European Jews to the East …