The London Years by Rudolf Rocker bilingual Advancements in modern transportation allowed

Advancements in modern transportation allowed Yiddish theater artists to reach global audiences

Schachter tells their story and in so doing calls for a new way of thinking about Jewish cultural modernity

Sephardic Jews

and cultural history of klezmer in American life

The London Years by Rudolf Rocker bilingual Advancements in modern transportation allowedIntroduction by Colin Ward Rudolf Rocker, a German Catholic fleeing political persecution, moved to London to become the acknowledged leader of the Yiddish speaking Jewish anarchists. There, at a time of mass immigration by impoverished Jewspersecuted by a right wing press and an anti alien movementhe organized demonstrations of up to 25,000 against the contemporary Russian pogroms. Rocker established the Jewish Bakers Union in a community action