The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

意第绪语是19世纪80年代初到英国的东欧犹太移民所说的语言。到20世纪50年代，这个工人阶级社区已经分散，原始社区已经被摧毁，意第绪语基本上消失了。今天，意第绪语的文学和文化遗产已经丢失。作为ahrc资助的“制作和重塑犹太东区”项目的一部分，来自世界各地档案馆的伦敦意第绪语文学资料被收集、翻译和分析，项目研究人员构建了一幅东区工薪阶层犹太人生活的图景。我们的后续项目源于我们的意第绪语表演所产生的意想不到的公众热情。它的目的是利用这些以意第绪语和英语翻译的文本，让一系列公众观众了解犹太移民到伦敦东区的历史，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学和学习，这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文化历史的播客和链接网站。该系列庆祝伦敦意第绪文化的丰富性，以及它与英国文化和文学的密切交织，作为英国移民历史的一个组成部分。这些播客将由项目团队与客座学者、作家和演员共同呈现，并将通过流行文化媒介，特别是小说和歌曲，探索移民和文化适应的经历。这些来自伦敦流行的意第绪语出版社的生动文本也将在网站上提供，作为中级意第绪语的教学资源，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讨论论坛和现场活动来促进。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陶尔哈姆莱茨当地历史图书馆和档案馆将促进许多不同受众参与该项目，包括意第绪语的年轻学习者和母语为老年的人。反过来，该项目将使我们的社区合作伙伴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的意第绪语中心的现有联系，吸引更广泛的国际受众。与此同时，通过在播客和网站上提供英文翻译的文本，该项目还面向不了解意第绪语或犹太文化的人。该项目通过信息丰富、娱乐和煽动性的内容与这些受众产生互动，旨在扩大对英国工人阶级犹太历史的了解，并让更多人了解意第绪文化。

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.