Acknowledgements

The production of Stenclmusic includes recorded interview material from, Hannah Grant (recorded in the Yiddish Class that she leads at Edgware and District Reform Synagogue), Majer Bogdanski, Esther Leigh, Ray Rinkoff and Marie Lowe.

The poems of Avrom Stencl are read in Yiddish by Majer Bogdanski and in English by Brian Abbott. The translations of Little Bird on a Chimney and verses from Whitechapel Idyll are by Stephen Watts. The translations of Played out Whitechapel No 6 (The final Jew) and Played out Whitechapel No 1 (With tailor’s needle and thread) are by Chaim Neslen.

Stephen Watts reads his own poems, Brick Lane and Birds of East London. Brian Abbott reads a compilation of texts drawn from observers of the Cable Street Riot.

The clarinets are played by Neyire Ashworth and were recorded by Steve Parr at Hear No Evil Studios. Spoken texts were recorded and edited by Neyire Ashworth with the generous assistance of Ashley Drees.

Photographs are by Neyire Ashworth, Philip Parr and Craig Taylor. Historical material is used with the generous permission and assistance of the Tower Hamlets Library Local History Archive.