A video from Friends of Yiddish, an evening of poetry, film and conversation, organised in partnership with Manchester Poetry Library and Manchester Metropolitan University Writing School. During this event we were exploring one of Britain’s foremost but now largely forgotten…
The Poet of Whitechapel 19 September 2022. A programme about the extraordinary life and work of the Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl (1897-1983) who went from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in southern Poland to the bohemian cafés of pre-war Berlin…
In 1977 a young Jewish youth worker from Manchester called Shloimy Alman started photographing the remnants of Jewish life in the streets of his youth around Cheetham Hill. Shloimy wandered around the area repeatedly, documenting local characters, businesses, synagogues and…
