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Anarchist Encyclopedia: Rudolf Rocker Page; from the Daily Bleed: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | From premises first in Berners Street and later in Jubilee Street, the anarchists ran active programmes of lectures, concerts, plays and dances that attracted many immigrants seeking political education and social diversion. |
 | | A leading figure among the anarchists was the German Catholic Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958), a charismatic character and superb public speaker who had learnt Yiddish and was widely admired by the East End Jews. |
 | | These attitudes were reinforced by events such as the Tottenham Outrage in 1909, when a policeman was murdered by recently arrived immigrants, or the Sidney Street Siege in 1911, in which three policemen were killed after a bungled burglary." |
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