Willy Goldman’s ‘East End My Cradle’
It’s my pleasure to invite you to a seminar and reception to mark the Faber Finds reissue of Willy Goldman’s classic memoir of the Jewish East End, East End My Cradle, first published in 1940.
Speakers:
- Professor Valentine Cunningham (Oxford University) on Willy Goldman
- Professor Tony Kushner (Southampton University) on the historiography of the East End
- Professor David Cesarani (Royal Holloway University of London) on East End Jewish writers
- Dr Hannah Ewence (Southampton University) on remembering the East End
- Tim Bell (Queen Mary, University of London) on working-class writing
- Dr Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of London) interviewing Bill Goldman, Willy Goldman’s son
Time: Friday 15 July 2011, 2-4pm, followed by a reception
Place: Lock-Keeper’s Graduate Centre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London
(Building 33 on this downloadable map: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/
Enter the campus along Wesfield Way then turn right towards the canal after the first block of buildings. The Graduate Centre is the small, striking looking building in the gap between the larger buildings)
To attend, please register with Nadia Valman, organiser (n.d.valman@qmul.ac.uk)
Kindly supported by Faber and the School of English and Drama, QMUL.
http://www.faber.co.uk/work/east-end-my-cradle/9780571276462/
https://faberfinds.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/willy-goldmans-east-end-my-cradle/
