Übersetzt von: Barry Smerin

Dr. Vivi Lachs is a social and cultural historian and a Yiddish performer and translator. Her books include Whitechapel Noise. and London Yiddishtown. (both Wayne State University Press). This volume is the result of a research fellowship at Queen Mary University of London on the project Making and Remaking the Jewish East End. Lachs records with the band Klezmer Klub, leads tours of the Jewish East End, and runs London's Great Yiddish Parade. Barry Smerin holds a first-class degree in Hebrew Literature and Jewish History from University College London. He is a translator of historiography and original historical source documents from Yiddish, Polish, German and French, and has taught Yiddish language and literature at universities in Poland, France and England for over thirty years.