- Published: 8 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446483060
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
Rothschild Buildings
Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920
- Published: 8 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446483060
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
A work of first-class history and a major contribution to the social history of Anglo-Jewry, lively, well-researched and eminently quotable
Jewish Chronicle
As rich and informative a community study as one could hope to get
Urban Studies
Jerry White has given us a book which deserves to be on every historian's shelf
Paul Thompson, History Today
Prize[d] for its rich, detailed insights into immigrant life in turn-of-the-century Spitalfields... Though White's commentary steers the reader and supplies valuable context, it's the interpolated quotations from tenants which bring the Buildings to colourful, tumultuous life
Time Out
We are never likely to have another account which sets these personal recollections so firmly in the physical environment in which people grew up, struggled and sometimes flourished. A whole historical episode is illuminated by the decision to focus on just a couple of streets and the people who lived there
Times Educational Supplement
With an economy of language, without sentimentality, yet with a sensitive perception, rare for an outsider looking in on an alien world, Jerry White marvellously evokes the lost world of the immigrant 'greener'
Spectator