Tuesday, 12 March 2019 at 7:00 pm – Tuesday, 12 March 2019 at 9:00 pm

The Vanishing Street / Granada Television's Jewish Identity

* * * Please bear in mind the location of this event has changed, the event will now be held at the Geoffrey Manton building in LT7 * * *

Date: Tuesday 12th March 2019

Time: 6.30pm - 9pm

Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, LT7 

Tickets: £10 for double bill. Available on JHSE website here.

A two-part programme that will start with a talk by Dr Rachel Lichtenstein on The Vanishing Street - a sense of belonging, stories in film from the old Jewish East End of London. Part two of the programme will be talk given by Isabel Taube on Granada Television’s Jewish Identity


Dr Rachel Lichtenstein on The Vanishing Street - a sense of belonging, stories in film from the old Jewish East End of London.

This illustrated talk will explore the work of experimental filmmaker Robert Vas, who was bought up in a Nazi occupied ghetto in Hungary and made two documentaries in the 1960s that explored the disappearing world of London's Jewish East End. His short film The Vanishing Street (1962) captures the particular Yiddisha atmosphere of Hessle Street market in Whitechapel just before developers pulled the place down. His documentary Belonging (1967) followed the lives of three artists in East London, one of whom was the legendary Yiddish poet Avram Stencl, the subject of Lichtenstein's next book.

Dr Rachel Lichtenstein

Author Rachel Lichtenstein is internationally known for her books, exhibitions and other multi-disciplinary projects exploring Jewish life and culture. Rachel is a Reader at Manchester Metropolitan University and is currently working in East London to develop the first permanent museum celebrating the story of Jewish migration to East End based in London’s oldest Ashkenazi synagogue Sandys Row. Her publications include: Estuary: Out from London to the Sea, (Hamish Hamilton, 2016), Diamond Street (Hamish Hamilton, 2012), On Brick Lane (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) Rodinsky’s Room (Granta, 1999 with Iain Sinclair), Keeping Pace: Older Women of the East End (Women’s Library, 2003), A Little Dust Whispered (2002) and Rodinsky’s Whitechapel (Artangel, 1999). Her artwork has been widely exhibited both in the UK and internationally, including at. The Whitechapel Gallery, The British Library, The Barbican Art Gallery, Wood Street Galleries (USA) & The Jerusalem Theatre (Israel). She is also a tour guide of London’s Jewish East End.


Isabel Taube on Granada Television’s Jewish Identity

Granada Television occupies a unique place in British cultural history. Created in 1956, it is best known for series such as Coronation Street and World in Action and for carving out a distinctive political and cultural identity reflective of the company’s founders, Sidney and Cecil Bernstein. In this illustrated talk, researcher Isabel Taube will provide an insight into the Jewish background of the Bernsteins and how this shaped the ethos of Granada television.

Isabel Taube

Isabel Taube is PhD researcher in History at Manchester Metropolitan University working on a thesis exploring Granada Television's presentation of young people and youth culture from the 1950s to 1980s. She is Tutor in Critical and Contextual Studies, School of Arts & Media , University of Salford.

Organised by RAH! at Manchester Met in partnership with the Jewish History Society. This event is part of Jewish History Month 2018.

For more information, please contact:

Sharon · info@jhse.org

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