Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 – 1920

by	Jerry White

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Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H. Wingate Literary Award.Rothschild Buildings were typical of the ‘model dwellings for the working classes’ which were such an important part of the response to late-Victorian London’s housing problem. They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the community which put down roots there was to be characteristic of the East End Jewish working class in its formative years. By talking to people who grew up in the Buildings in the 1890s and after, and using untapped documentary evidence from a wide range of public and private sources, the author re-creates the richly detailed life of that community and its relations with the economy and culture around it. The book shows how cramped and austere housing was made into homes; how the mechanism of class domination, of which the Buildings were part, was both accepted and fought against; how a close community was riven with constantly shifting tensions; and how that community co-existed in surprising ways with the East End casual poor of ‘outcast London’. It provides unique and fascinating insights into immigrant and working-class life at the turn of the last century.

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Weight	0.409 kg
Dimensions	2.5 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm
by	Jerry White
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	336
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2003-1-2
Imprint	Pimlico
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0712601465
About The Author	Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Review Quote	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
Other text	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'

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