East End Photographs

Steven Berkoff

ISBN 10: 1907893288 / ISBN 13: 9781907893285

Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, 2012

About this Item

88 pp bw plates, illustrated covers, orange endpapers. Signed by author on title page. Clean sound book slightest marks to top edge. Seller Inventory # 045993

Bibliographic Details

Title: East End Photographs

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

"The East End was changing rapidly and I felt I had to record it before it vanished forever - at the time however I did not realise quite how fast it would disappear. The area was largely Jewish and this made it fascinating, since the early immigrants came with an amazing pot-pourri of cultures from a score of different peoples. For a while I lived in Anthony Street, off Commercial Road and just around the corner from the extraordinary Hessel Street, a bustling thoroughfare that could have been torn out of the Warsaw ghetto. It was a dense artery of Jewish life with chicken slaughterers, bagel sellers and delis selling that wonderful variety of Jewish food so adored by its passionate noshers. I'd go shopping with ma and be astounded by the clamour and the noise, the shouts of introduction from bagel sellers, every few yards sitting with their huge sacks of Moorish circles of dough. I was fortunate enough to capture some images of that life before it faded away along with the people who made it so memorable."