Podcast, The Poet of Whitechapel

Yiddish Poetry. Podcast presented by Rachel Lichtenstein now available on Mixcloud.  'A programme about the extraordinary life and work of the Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl who went from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in southern Poland to the bohemian cafés of pre-war Berlin before finally escaping Nazi Germany to arrive in Whitechapel, the heart of the Jewish East End. He soon became London’s foremost Yiddish poet, founding the literary journal 'Loshn un Lebn' and the weekly 'Friends of Yiddish' meetings at Toynbee Hall with its lively mixture of poetry, politics, literature and song, all part of his mission to keep the Yiddish language alive.' Further information.