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Joseph Leftwich (1892–1983) born Joseph Lefkowitz was a British-Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill.He was one of the ‘Whitechapel Boys’ group (the others being John Rodker Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London’s East End in the period roughly 1910–1914.