Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920

Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H. Wingate Literary Award.

Rothschild Buildings were typical of the 'model dwellings for the working classes' which were such an important part of the response to late-Victorian London's housing problem. They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the community which put down roots there was to be characteristic of the East End Jewish working class in its formative years.

By talking to people who grew up in the Bui...