1. My East End (opens in new tab)

Joe Jacobs on growing up in a working class Jewish community in the East End of London in the early 20th Century. Submitted by Fozzie on May 5, 2026 The beginning is always a good place to start. If only I knew where it all began. It had to be the East End of London. My East End. During the last half of the 1800’s up to the outbreak of the first world war, thousands of Jewish people left Russia and Eastern Europe to start a new life in all parts of Europe and the Americas. London was a magnet...