Vivi Lachs Author & Editor

Vivi Lachs is a social historian, Yiddishist, and research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She was a Yiddish Book Centre Translation Fellow in 2019, and is also a teacher, a Yiddish singer, and the author of Whitechapel Noise (Wayne State University Press, 2018). She organizes the Yiddish Open Mic and the Great Yiddish Parade and has produced two CDs of London Yiddish songs from the old East End: Whitechapel, mayn vaytshepl, and Don't Ask Silly Questions.