Resources & texts

Arbeter Fraynd newspaper, 1891

Archive material and texts used in research for Correspondences

Archive Material

Excerpts from the Journals of Alice Leff, edited by Beatrice Pizer (Family archive)

Stella’s Story (Recorded May 1999 – New Zealand)(Family archive)

Arbeter Fraint (Worker’s Friend) newspaper published 1880s - 1910s

Memoirs of Abraham Mundy,Secretary to the Poor Jew's Temporary Shelter 1897-1946 (Jewish Museum London archive)

Aliens Act 1905

Texts

The London Years by Rudolf Rocker

East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914, William J. Fishman 

Journey Through a Small Planet, Emanuel Litvinoff

Class, ethnicity and politics in the Jewish East End, 1918-1939, E. Smith.

A Kid for Two Farthings, Wolf Mankowitz

Greeners and sweaters: Jewish immigration and the cabinet-making trade in East London, 1880-1914 - Leonard D. Smoth, Jewish Historical Studies , 2004, Vol. 39 (2004), pp. 103-120 (Jewish Historical Society of England)

Citizenship and Belonging: east London Jewish Radicals 1903-1918 - Ben Gidley (PhD, Goldsmiths, 2003)

Diasporic Memory and the Call to Identity: Yiddish Migrants, Ben Gidley (2013) in Early Twentieth Century East London, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34:6, pp. 650-664

Troublesome Boy, Harold Rosen (1993)

The Rag Race, Adam D. Mendelsohn (New York University Press, 2015)

The Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter: an episode in migration studies, Aubrey Newman, Jewish Historical Studies, Vol. 40 (2005), pp. 141-155

Beyond the Horizon: The story of a Radical Emigrant, Thomas Eyges (1944)

The History of British Immigration Policy (1905-2016) Researched by Alyssa Girvan, Refugee History