Comments on: Whitechapel Noise

By: Ellen Whittle

Ellen Whittle — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:33:54 +0000

Reply from my Canadian cousin to whom I always send posts concerning the Jewish people in East London. Interesting.
I got this back from Roz Usiskin to whom I sent the Whitechapel Noise article:
“Thank you for sending this interesting piece. we have been singing songs by Morris Winchevsky for
a very long time. The left wing school,in Toronto where UJPO is located is called the
Morris Winchevsky Shule. It is unusual that this just came to light in London. roz”
I should explain that UJPO is the “United Jewish Peoples’ Order,” a Communist/Socialist/Progressive organization that Roz chaired for years (and to which we belong). There are chapters in several cities in Canada.

By: Adele

Adele — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:34:43 +0000

This is the community into which my family immersed itself after fleeing the pogroms of Russia/Poland. Music kept them going; my grandparents lived in a Whitechapel tenement, struggled to keep enough food on the table to feed their children but found solace in their neighbors and their music. Their phonograph took pride of place on their kitchen table once they could finally afford to own one. Thanks for this unusual look into an almost forgotten immigrant life in the Jewish East End, GA.

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:33:58 +0000

Communities may scatter; just keep the Jewish spirit going for ever and ever – Amen John a poet The Poetry Soc & Bus Pass Poets Bristol