‘In the beginning there were no Jews.But by the 1920s, Hessel Street market, in the heart of London’s East End, was full of them. There were butchers, bakers and chicken soup makers; fishmongers, costermongers and a host of….‘The rest, of course, is pure fiction.‘Feinstein’s Theory of Relatives and Other Hessel Street Stories’ is a collection of 15 humorous fictional stories set in and around the Jewish East End of London during the late 1940s and early 50s. The stories are based on the author’s very vague memories of growing up in Hessel Street during this period, which is why the book is a work of fiction and not fact.
