Writers such as Zangwill, Wesker, Litvinoff and Berkoff have immortalised the old Jewish East End. Some of its most ...

The Yiddish music of London’s East End brought together the Yiddish language and Jewish culture of eastern Europe with the raucous, irreverent style of the cockney music hall.

As Europe marks Victory Day over Nazi Germany, Londoner John Goldsmith still remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that devastated his neighborhood in east London.