The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

意第绪语是19世纪80年代初移民到英国的东欧犹太移民所说的语言。到20世纪50年代，这个工人阶级社区被驱散，起源社区被摧毁，意第绪语基本消失。如今，意第绪语的文学和文化遗产已经消失。作为AHRC资助的“打造和重塑犹太东区”项目的一部分，从世界各地的档案中收集、翻译和分析了伦敦意第绪语文学资源，项目研究人员绘制了一幅东区工人阶级犹太人生活的图景。我们的后续项目源于我们的意第绪语表演阶段所产生的意想不到的公众热情。它的目的是利用这些意第绪语和英语翻译的文本，让一系列公众受众了解伦敦东区犹太移民的历史，包括与这段历史有祖先联系的人，以及对移民历史或伦敦文化感兴趣的人。其次，我们的目标是刺激和支持意第绪语的教与学，意第绪语在英国仍然是一种濒危语言。该项目将制作“伦敦意第绪语播客”，这是一系列关于伦敦意第绪语文化历史的播客和链接网站。该系列庆祝丰富的伦敦意第绪文化，以及它与英国文化和文学的紧密交织，作为英国移民史不可分割的一部分。播客将由项目组与客座学者、作家和演员一起呈现，并将通过流行文化，特别是小说和歌曲来探索移民和文化适应的经历。这些来自伦敦受欢迎的意第绪语媒体的生动文本也将作为中级意第绪语的教学和学习资源在网站上提供，以满足不断增长的意第绪语学习社区的学习需求。学习者和听众之间的互动将通过在线论坛和现场活动来培养。我们的英国社区合作伙伴犹太博物馆、犹太音乐学院、大屠杀幸存者中心和塔哈姆莱特地方历史图书馆和档案馆将促进许多不同受众参与该项目，包括年轻的意第绪语学习者和以英语为母语的老年人。反过来，该项目将使我们的社区合作组织能够扩大他们提供的以意第绪语为重点的文化节目。此外，该团队将利用他们与美国和以色列意第绪语中心的现有联系，接触到更广泛的国际受众。与此同时，通过在播客和网站上提供英文翻译的文本，该项目还针对不了解意第绪语或犹太文化的人。通过信息性、娱乐性和挑衅性的内容，该项目旨在扩大对英国工人阶级犹太历史的了解，并让更多的人参与到意第绪语文化中来。

Yiddish was the language spoken by Eastern European Jewish immigrants to Britain from the early 1880s. By the 1950s this working-class community was dispersed, communities of origin had been destroyed and Yiddish largely disappeared. Today, the literary and cultural heritage of Yiddish has been lost. As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Making and Remaking the Jewish East End', London Yiddish literary sources from archives across the world were collected, translated and analysed, and the project researchers built a picture of East End working-class Jewish life. Our follow-on project arises from the unforeseen public enthusiasm generated by our stagings of Yiddish performance. It aims to use these texts in Yiddish and English translation to engage a range of public audiences with the history of Jewish immigrants to London's East End, including people with an ancestral connection to this history and those interested in migration history or London cultures. Secondly we aim to stimulate and support the teaching and learning of the Yiddish language, which remains an endangered language in Britain. The project will produce 'The Cockney Yiddish Podcast', a series of podcasts and linked website about the history of Yiddish culture in London. The series celebrates the richness of Cockney Yiddish culture, and its close intertwinement with British culture and literature, as an integral part of British migration history. The podcasts will be presented by the project team with guest scholars, writers and actors and will explore the experience of immigration and acculturation through the medium of popular culture, especially fiction and song. These lively texts from London's popular Yiddish press will also be made available on the website as teaching and learning resources for intermediate-level Yiddish language, in order to serve the learning needs of the growing Yiddish language learning community. Interactivity among learners and listeners will be fostered through an online discussion forum and live events. Our UK community partners the Jewish Museum, the Jewish Music Institute, the Holocaust Survivors' Centre and Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives will facilitate the involvement of a number of different audiences in the project, including both younger learners of Yiddish language and elderly native speakers. In turn the project will enable our community partner organisations to expand their provision of Yiddish-focused cultural programming. In addition, the team will use their existing connections to Yiddish language centres in the US and Israel to reach wider international audiences. At the same time, through making texts available in English translation in the podcast and website, the project also addresses people with no knowledge of Yiddish or Jewish culture. By generating engagement with these several audiences through informative, entertaining and provocative content, the project aims to expand knowledge of working-class Jewish history in Britain and to engage more people with Yiddish culture.