A review by nyertryingtoreadeverything
Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920 by Jerry White

informative slow-paced

5.0

I really appreciated this fantastic book. This gives a great history of working class Jewish people and a new insight for me into the East end. While a lot of Jewish history books are appropriately focused on the Holocaust and the second World War it was interesting to read a book which explored Jewish British history separate from that. The way the author recorded many oral histories and contextualized them into what was happening in London, the Jewish community and the wider world kept me engaged throughout.