Whitechapel Boys Explained

The Whitechapel Boys were a loosely-knit group of Anglo-Jewish writers and artists of the early 20th century. It is named after Whitechapel, which contained one of London's main Jewish settlements and from which many of its members came. These members included Mark Gertler, Isaac Rosenberg, David Bomberg, Joseph Leftwich, Jacob Kramer, Morris Goldstein, Stephen Winsten, John Rodker, Lazarus Aaronson and its only female member, Clara Birnberg.^{[1] [2]}

The name originates later in the 20th century, and was not used at the time the group was active.^[1]

Several of the Whitechapel Boys, such as Rodker, Rosenberg, Leftwich, Winsten and Bomberg, were also politically active and members of the radical Young Socialist League.^{[3] [4]}

External links

• Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle - an exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery, part of a series of exhibitions on the Whitechapel Boys
• Review of the exhibition

Notes and References

1. Dickson . Rachel . MacDougall . Sarah . 2004 . The Whitechapel Boys . . Routledge . 51 . 3 . 29–34 . 10.1080/0449010X.2004.10706848. 31 January 2024 .
2. Book: MacDougall, Sarah . Walsh . Michael J. K. . 2010 . London, Modernism, and 1914 . 'Something is happening there': early British modernism the Great War and the 'Whitechapel Boys'. Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-19580-5 . 126.
3. Book: Patterson, Ian . Beasley . Rebecca . Bullock . Philip Ross . 2013 . Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: From Melodrama to Modernism . The Translation of Soviet Literature . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-966086-5 . 189.
4. Book: Moorcroft Wilson, Jean . Jean Moorcroft Wilson . 2009 . Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life . Northwestern University Press . U.S. . 978-0-8101-2604-6 . 85, 98, 101, 181.