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Fermin Rocker (b.1907) Politics, War and Protest – @Writing__ Lives by ⁦ @EmmaSellarsLJMU⁩

Fascinating blog on child born to Jewish anarchists (here smoking his first pipe, aged 3) & his later radical life. http://www.writinglives.org/uncategorized/fermin-rocker-b-1907-politics-war-and-protest

Fermin Rocker (b.1907) Politics, War and Protest

“The making of the working class is a fact of political and cultural, as much as of economic, history.” (Thompson, E.P.C. 1963) Fermin’s parents Millie and Rudolf were both anarchist activists. The…

http://www.writinglives.org/uncategorized/fermin-rocker-b-1907-politics-war-and-protest

And here is one of Fermin’s paintings after he returned to London in 1970s ‘Waiting for the tube’. His art can be found on his website which is run by his family .
http://www.ferminrocker.org/website/waiting_for_the_tube.html

“The Jewish youngsters of Whitechapel and Stepney were a rather rough and scrappy breed” (Fermin Rocker)

More on Fermin’s East End childhood & vivid memoir by @EmmaSellarsLJMU for @Writing__Lives @histchild

http://www.writinglives.org/fermin-rocker/fermin-rocker-b-1907-habits-culture-and-belief

For more on Fermin Rocker’s The East End Years: A Stepney Childhood (1998), see all the posts in his Author Blog @Writing__Lives by @EmmaSellarsLJMU @JMUEnglish

http://www.writinglives.org/category/fermin-rocker

@BishopsgateInst might be interested in this thread on Fermin Rocker’s memoir The East End Years: A Stepney Childhood. (1998)

The Author Blog by @EmmaSellarsLJMU @Writing__Lives includes some of his artwork as well as brilliant photographs http://www.writinglives.org/category/fermin-rocker

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