East End Evocation
Monday 1 March 2004 12.30pm
Jerry White
Chair: Clive Bettington
Jerry White’s award-winning Rothschild Buildings: Life
in an East End
Tenement Block 1887-1920 (1980, re-issued 2003) is a
fascinating evocation of the Jewish East End combining social history with
powerful personal testimony.
In this session, Jerry White played recordings of some of
the original interviews that he conducted when writing Rothschild Buildings:
Life in an East End
Tenement Block 1887-1920 and revealed some fascinating stories
behind episodes in the book. The audience also shared their reflections and
recollections of life in the Jewish East End.
Jerry White is
the author of London in the Twentieth Century: A
City and its People (2001). Rothschild Buildings (1980), his first
book, won the JC-Wingate Literary Award.
Clive Bettington is
Founder Chairman of the Jewish East End Celebration Society. He is the author
of Exploring the Vanishing Jewish East End (2003).
